The Coding Train (Daniel Shiffman, YouTube)

For browser-based creative coding, Daniel Shiffman's p5.js material is usually the most direct starting point because sketches run with JavaScript and an HTML canvas. Processing uses Java and remains useful, but p5.js is more closely aligned with much of the channel's current web-focused teaching.

Coding Challenges are project-based videos in which Shiffman builds a visual or interactive program, often from scratch. Subjects range from fractals and particle systems to steering behaviors, cellular automata, and generative art.

Yes, the channel includes beginner-friendly material using ml5.js, a JavaScript library designed to make machine-learning models accessible in creative projects. It also covers related tools such as TensorFlow.js when a topic requires lower-level control.

Daniel Shiffman is an educator associated with New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His books include The Nature of Code, which explains simulations involving vectors, forces, particles, evolution, and autonomous agents.