| Description |
xxii, 270 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Hello, world! -- Drawing more complicated shapes -- Introduction to strings and working with text -- Conditional statements -- Iteration and randomness -- Motion and transformation - -Working with lists and reading data -- Dictionaries and JSON -- Functions and periodic motion -- Object-oriented programming and PVector -- Mouse and keyboard interaction. |
| Summary |
This beginners book introduces non-programmers to the fundamentals of computer coding within a visual, arts-focused context. Tristan Bunn's remarkably effective teaching approach is designed to help you visualize core programming concepts while you make cool pictures, animations, and simulations using Python Mode for the open-source Processing development environment. Right from the first chapter, you'll produce and manipulate colorful drawings, shapes and patterns as Bunn walks you through a series of easy-to-follow graphical coding projects that grow increasingly complex. You'll go from drawing with code to animating a bouncing DVD screensaver and practicing data-visualization techniques. Along the way, you'll encounter creative-yet-practical skill-building challenges that relate to everything from video games, cars, and coffee, to fine art, amoebas, and Pink Floyd. As you grow more fluent in both Python and programming in general, topics shift toward the mastery of algorithmic thinking, as you explore periodic motion, Lissajous curves, and using classes to create objects. |
| Subject |
Python (Computer program language)
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Computer programming.
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Computer programming (OCoLC)fst00872390
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Python (Computer program language) (OCoLC)fst01084736
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sweigart, Al, Python beyond the basics San Francisco, CA : No Starch Press, Inc., [2021] 9781593279677 (DLC) 2020034288 |
| ISBN |
9781718500969 (paperback) |
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1718500963 (paperback) |
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