I started with Max for live, and it has one of the most gentle introductions to programming in general that I have ever seen. More than any one tutorial, will be the communities that help you.
Find the programming environment you want, feel them out. Do you want to focus on the simplicity and abstract a lot of the animation details away? Open frameworks and libcinder are my recommendations there, though I imagine JavaScript libraries have come to the forefront. Visual languages like VVVV are a bit better at making you reckon with how the hardware sees the code, but have smaller communities. Vsxu is for example, amazes me but is seemingly entirely undocumented. Go for the big communities before you pivot, maybe.
Google things that you'd guess are introductions. Typing creative coding JavaScript into duckduckgo yielded a bunch of university courses, whose coursework might be free. That is often the case with pure data, which I like.
Paid languages, usually based around the entertainment industry tend to have very involved and helpful communities, as they can be focused on the concepts rather than the language.
Follow communities like: old.reddit.com/r/creativecoding /r/p5js /r/maxmsp /r/puredata https://forum.puredata.info/category/7/pixel https://openframeworks.cc/ (<-- highly recommend this)
Find the programming environment you want, feel them out. Do you want to focus on the simplicity and abstract a lot of the animation details away? Open frameworks and libcinder are my recommendations there, though I imagine JavaScript libraries have come to the forefront. Visual languages like VVVV are a bit better at making you reckon with how the hardware sees the code, but have smaller communities. Vsxu is for example, amazes me but is seemingly entirely undocumented. Go for the big communities before you pivot, maybe.
Google things that you'd guess are introductions. Typing creative coding JavaScript into duckduckgo yielded a bunch of university courses, whose coursework might be free. That is often the case with pure data, which I like.
Paid languages, usually based around the entertainment industry tend to have very involved and helpful communities, as they can be focused on the concepts rather than the language.
https://derivative.ca/download. <-- touch designer
https://cycling74.com/search/page/1?sortBy=rel&tags%5B0%5D=&... <-- maxmspjitter
Search forums for links to blogposts. Use generative music as well as visualizations.