A friend and I have been playing Chess recently (neither of us are very good) and we decided we could use a chess clock to make the games faster and more stressful. We decided to make a game of it and see who could program a rudimentary (but working) chess clock. Here’s mine.

Circle Crawlers spawns a large number of ‘crawlers’ and a smaller number of ‘anomalies’ who each crawl around the screen randomly. The large anomalies move slow and thus never get too far away from the center. The smaller crawlers can move faster and can break away from the center but always die before they get too far out from their point of origin.

I was learning how to properly use objects and classes. Here there is a base class “Bug” and a class to extend it called “Crawler.” Class Bug is never directly called, I had planned on using it in the future, but never did. Also, I figured out how to use fonts for text in Processing.

A simple Processing program where a bunch of circles are drawn around the mouse.