The Useless Web

[Zoo]

I think I'm going to make a useless website like the ones off of http://www.theuselessweb.com/.

My idea is to make an audio equalizer out of hats of various sizes. The trouble is, I have absolutely no idea how to go about doing this in a web language. Presumably it would be a small HTML5 thing, but I don't know how. I guess it would take the amplitude of different frequency ranges between 20 and 20,000 Hz, the human hearing range, and turn that into a value between 1 and 11 and determine which hat image to use (there's 11 of them).

The trouble is, I have NO IDEA how to do that. Any ideas?

I guess the trouble is coding to work with audio. I'm not 100% sure as to how that works.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByGFPE2mRy5hR0Jka212aFFQSzQ&usp=sharing

[Zoo]

This does sound like a potential use for the HTML5 GM

[Zoo]

Okay, so I kinda sorta taught myself a bit of C++ a while back, and I can actually sort of work the HTML5 GM now. 

I really like HTML5 GM, actually. It's quite impressive. I guess I didn't fully appreciate it when Gan made it. For some reason, half the commands aren't working for me, though.

[Connors]

Well jeez, if you need help ask me or Gan. We're on Skype pretty often! However I'm not too familiar with working with audio.

 Even if I could write a program that can analyze a sound wave, I'd have no idea how to begin making an equalizer. I bet there's a free code library out there somewhere with a built in function to make one, though. Could be fun to try it.

[Gan]

I saw a Sound Transformer class in StageXL.

HTML5 GM is a bit outdated. Dart kinda fills that roll. It's actually easie than the HTML5 GM.

[Zoo]

Well... I think I'll do it in pure HTML5 canvas and JS. JS is so similar to C++ that it makes sense. Dart is a bit less inviting, even if it may be easier.

[Gan]

Dart is pure HTML5 and is just a nicer flavor of JS(it compiles to Javascript). Ask Connors, he's recently gotten into it.

Edit: Actually Javascript is a great starting point. You'll learn plenty and I'm sure you'll came to the same conclusion I did. It's simply too messy and you'll need a more organized language(Dart) with a dedicated IDE(Dart Editor) with auto-complete to work in. Writing Javascript code in TextEdit is certainly difficult.

[Connors]

What you should understand is that Dart's syntax is almost identical to Java even though it compiles to HTML5 and Javascript files. I did enjoy working with it, it seems more optimized than Java.

Dart is easier to learn for Java programmers, but knowledge of Object Oriented Programming such as C++ might still be useful.