A Python ‘port’ of a classic introductory text
This book is a Python version of the Reas/Fry classic “Getting Started with Processing”. It’s designed to be used with the “Processing.py” variant of the popular Processing toolkit, and therefore includes all of the same examples and discussions — but ported from Java to Python. As a bonus, it includes some examples in data visualization (and dealing with JSON files) that were not part of the original.So, who needs this book? In my opinion, it’s ideal for students or educators that subscribe to the creativity-oriented Processing philosophy of introductory programming, but who (for whatever reason) prefer to start with the Python language instead of Java. This book will be great for weeklong workshops, or the first few weeks of an introductory course in middle school, high school, or early undergraduate education.It’s important to point out that this book is NOT a comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language — of which there are already many good ones — any more than the original book by Reas and Fry is an “introduction to Java”. Instead, this book gets you quickly to the point of being able to make interactive things in Python-Processing. If anything, it introduces Python programming through concrete examples rather than abstract principles.
Basic Processing Book.
I wanted to like this book but as far as I can tell it’s almost a re-print of Getting Started with Processing. There is very little Python in this book.
Es muy similar al original de Getting Started with Processing. Es bueno si programas en Python y estas interesada en hacer visualizaciones y arte digital con Processing y quieres una guÃa completa y sin muchos rollos.
I teach coding to students of varying ages, from 5 to 25, and often use the Processing based approach developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. I already own the Java and P5.js versions of this book. Python is fast becoming the default introductory text-based language in UK schools, partly due to its low entry barriers, and I was looking for a text which covered the Python-based flavour of Processing at an introductory level. This book does exactly that.
A Python ‘port’ of a classic introductory text
This book is a Python version of the Reas/Fry classic “Getting Started with Processing”. It’s designed to be used with the “Processing.py” variant of the popular Processing toolkit, and therefore includes all of the same examples and discussions — but ported from Java to Python. As a bonus, it includes some examples in data visualization (and dealing with JSON files) that were not part of the original.So, who needs this book? In my opinion, it’s ideal for students or educators that subscribe to the creativity-oriented Processing philosophy of introductory programming, but who (for whatever reason) prefer to start with the Python language instead of Java. This book will be great for weeklong workshops, or the first few weeks of an introductory course in middle school, high school, or early undergraduate education.It’s important to point out that this book is NOT a comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language — of which there are already many good ones — any more than the original book by Reas and Fry is an “introduction to Java”. Instead, this book gets you quickly to the point of being able to make interactive things in Python-Processing. If anything, it introduces Python programming through concrete examples rather than abstract principles.
Basic Processing Book.
I wanted to like this book but as far as I can tell it’s almost a re-print of Getting Started with Processing. There is very little Python in this book.
Chegou em excelente condições
Es muy similar al original de Getting Started with Processing. Es bueno si programas en Python y estas interesada en hacer visualizaciones y arte digital con Processing y quieres una guÃa completa y sin muchos rollos.
I teach coding to students of varying ages, from 5 to 25, and often use the Processing based approach developed by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. I already own the Java and P5.js versions of this book. Python is fast becoming the default introductory text-based language in UK schools, partly due to its low entry barriers, and I was looking for a text which covered the Python-based flavour of Processing at an introductory level. This book does exactly that.
A good book for beginners to processing. Good examples.