In the first episode of season 2 of createCanvas, Saber Khan talks with Lauren Mccarthy about p5.js, teaching, and being a student and a teacher. Lauren is the creator of p5.js, an open-source art and education platform that prioritizes access and diversity in learning to code, with over 1.5 million users. She expands on this work in her role as a Director of the Processing Foundation, whose mission is to serve those who have historically not had access to the fields of technology, code, and art in learning software and visual literacy. Lauren is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts.

Lauren's work is presented on her website - https://lauren-mccarthy.com/. You can take a look at the Kadenze Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js online course - https://www.kadenze.com/courses/introduction-to-programming-for-the-visual-arts-with-p5-js/info. And the Intro to p5.js workshop materials - https://github.com/lmccart/p5-workshop.

Read the interview as a transcript, with images and links, on our Medium Publication - (link coming soon)