TDF Software List

Required Software:

• Adobe Creative Suite. UC Berkeley students have free access - find more information and request your Adobe CC license here.
• Github - Click here to create your course repository, if you haven't already (Shm sent this out in an email at the beginning of the course).
• Figma. It will provide a creative collaboration space for us to work together, and is free for students - sign up using your Berkeley email.
• Rhino & Grasshopper - Free 90 day trial, 80% off ($195) for students afterwards, for a lifetime subscription.
• Particle IDE (browser based)
• openProcessing / p5js (browser-based, or via VSCode extension)
• VSCode (Visual Studio Code)
• Particle Workbench (VSCode extension)
• Github copilot (VSCode Extension) - An AI Pair Programmer and learning assistant used while working in VSCode

Optional (useful):

• Mural [design communication and thinking]
• Miro [design communication and thinking]
• Various web-based collaborative coding tools [browser sandboxes]
• OpenAI API, Semantic Kernel, other APIs [emergent tech]
• Faust, Tone.js [Digital Signal Processing / Synthesis]
• Unity [augmented reality / virtual reality]