Seb Lee-Delisle
Seb Lee is a programmer that began his journey as a Flash developer, he now specialises in Javascript and 'creative coding'. He runs workshops across the country for Javascript training - his website for this is CreativeJS.
Here's his official 'about' - Seb Lee-Delisle is an internationally recognised creative coder specialising in large scale installations. Whether building digital interactive fireworks displays or glow-stick voting systems, his work uses technology to bring people together in fun and exciting ways. He also produces creative visual effects for websites, games and apps in many programming languages and platforms.
He loves sharing the creativity of code with artists and programmers alike using physics, motion detection, 3D and particle systems. His work has pushed the boundaries of what is possible both on and off the web, and won two BAFTAs with Plug-in Media, the agency he co-founded in 2004.
I learnt the most from Seb Lee out as I understand Javascript to look at and its individual elements but writing my own scripts is another matter - to have someone talk through creating a particle generator was really beneficial and I understood everything written. I am now working with the code example he produced to create other types of particles and to try and better understand the math involved.
He's a genius and pretty inspiring - His website contains loads of great tutorials at sebleedelisle.com. I hope to integrate Javascript object manipulation into the Interactivity brief to create some kind of interactive story website or game - this will aid my understanding of Javascript and hopefully give me the solid understanding I've been looking for for the last year... I'm currently reading Javascript, mySQL and PHP - the basics and I've read the whole of Javascript 'the missing manual' (how very apt) but to no avail - I can now just understand what the code does and means but not actually write longer scripts (not that actually work).
This is why Seb Lee is such a good teacher - he writes code in the most simple form and can tell you exactly why it works and does what it does. Fixing something when you're not 100% why its broken is pretty hard so perhaps one day I'll save up and attend one of his training workshops.
