Description
Book SynopsisProgramming permeates almost all aspects of our lives. This includes being active on social media, shopping online, and participating in virtual courses. It also includes driving a car and using many devices. This book will teach you the basics of programming using the Processing programming language and provide practice with logical, algorithmic thinking. It can provide insight into what is involved in producing the technical infrastructure of our world. While reading this book, you can build programs based on your own ideas, using images you create or acquire and making connections to activities you enjoy.
The chapters in the book will demonstrate the process of programming, starting with formulating an idea, planning, building on past projects, and refining the work, similar to writing an essay or composing a song. This approach will guide you to make use of logic and mathematics to produce beautiful effects. The text contains an Appendix with an introducti
Table of Contents
1. Basics
2. Interactions
3. Animation Using Arrays and Parallel Structures
4. Classes
5. More Interactions
6. Images, Graphics, and Building on Prior Work
7. Using Files for Making a Holiday Card
8. Combining Videos, Images, and Graphics
9. Hangman
10. 3D
Appendix: Processing and JavaScript: p5.js