Educational Workshop
Painting with Code
Creative coding for everyone — p5.js
Iran Computer Museum, TehranSeptember 2025
Instructor: Pedar Sadegh Beyki
This workshop offered a creative, artistic path into programming. Over two days we learned to paint with code in p5.js while taking first steps in JavaScript and web programming.
Topics
- Introduction to the p5.js environment
- Core programming concepts: system, data, memory and processing cycles
- Working with variables, functions and parameters
- Coloring and drawing patterns with code
- Building a generative painting system
Prerequisites
- A simple laptop
Audience
- Complete beginners entering web programming creatively
- Designers, graphic artists and visual artists
- Anyone interested in geometry and 2D pattern drawing
- Those curious about interactive art, generative art and creative coding
Schedule
- September 9–10 — 11:00 to 13:30
Presented by Otaaared Computer Arts Education