Sorry for the gap, I had a rather busy March and needed to get some work done, rather than 'blogging'. I have not written any text yet (Will I need to ask for an extension!), but have been coding a few ideas. I am trying to cover the following areas/subjects with my processing programs: Simple classes (Using a simple class to show the structure of a class and discuss instantiating them, overloading methods, constructors etc), Inheritance, Composition, Abstract Classes, Interfaces and finally Polymorphism. I am planning on writing the programs and then 'writing around them' to produce the text. Because programming is not my day job (yet!) and so I have limited programming experience I hope to post the code in advance to allow any experienced professional coders to 'pick holes and criticise' so that I can improve the programs as I work on the text.

I have now read up the end of Chapter 7 and am about to start the section that covers my chunk of the book. I am almost ready to start getting some thoughts down regarding the structure and what to include in order to cover all the points that need covering. I am quite pleased to have finally got to the stage where I can do some work and see some results, rather than just reading and learning.

I am becoming very conscious that I have not achieved a whole lot in the few months we have been doing this. I got up to chapter 6 but have had to go back and reread chapter 5 as I missed the early important stuff by hurrying and reading sporadically. I will try and do little and often and then get up to my chapter where the real work begins.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year.I'm up to Chapter 5 now, but still have not written any Processing code or used the IDE at all. Will read up to and including my bit (Classes) and then start playing.