"programming the bigger picture"

After reading "Programming the bigger picture" a key concept I found in Proccesing is that it has a lot of the basic little things we forgot how to do (e.g. logic, trigonometry etc). I've never really had any real coding experience so it's still a new experience to be using Proccesing, but I feel i've managed to get some of the basic things down-packed such as shapes. In terms of design it has definatly made me think of how to create images in such a new enviroment and with a limited ammount of knowledge (I was still unsure how to use Processing at the time)