Learn Processing before VEX?

[inquisit]

Is learning Processing a good idea and easily translatable to VEX? There are some excellent resources like Daniel Shiffman, who does a great job of explaining the foundations of programming. 

Edited January 21, 2020 by inquisit

[acey195]

Yes and no.

The stuff he teaches is indeed great
and some of it will be transferable (at least the basic coding logic)

However, the syntax of that language is quite different from Vex,
and it would work the closest to Vex, run over "detail (only once)",
which while valid for some purposes, is not the most efficient use of VEX.
In this case using a Python SOP will be about the same speed,
which is probably easier to learn (has more learning resources outside of Houdini)

VEX is kind of designed to process existing data, rather than generating everything from scratch. (but note that it CAN do it)
When VEX is run over "points" or "primitives", it acts more like a shader,
executing exactly the same code for each of them, which allows multi-threading, unlocking its true power.

Hope that helps!

[kleer001]

There are enough VEX and Wrangle SOP resources that you can dive directly into it without needed to learning something else beforehand. That is, of course, unless you're planning on learning Processing anyways, then, yes, it will be a little bit of help just like Twan said.

[jonp]

Can you follow this with VEX?  Seems like a lot of overlap with Processing: