Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

Daniel Shiffman

Apr 2009 · Morgan Kaufmann

About this ebook

The free, open-source Processing programming language environment was created at MIT for people who want to develop images, animation, and sound. Based on the ubiquitous Java, it provides an alternative to daunting languages and expensive proprietary software. This book gives graphic designers, artists and illustrators of all stripes a jump start to working with processing by providing detailed information on the basic principles of programming with the language, followed by careful, step-by-step explanations of select advanced techniques.The author teaches computer graphics at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and his book has been developed with a supportive learning experience at its core. From algorithms and data mining to rendering and debugging, it teaches object-oriented programming from the ground up within the fascinating context of interactive visual media.Previously announced as "Pixels, Patterns, and Processing"

• A guided journey from the very basics of computer programming through to creating custom interactive 3D graphics
• Step-by-step examples, approachable language, exercises, and LOTS of sample code support the reader's learning curve
• Includes lessons on how to program live video, animated images and interactive sound

Ratings and reviews

Such a great book! Processing, p5.js and processing.py are my current favourite programming platforms. (And although I consider the price of this book to be on the steep side, it is justifyable by the loads and loads of content inside.)

Reading the blue text for a class I'm currently taking, but everything makes more sense and is more useful, I think, if you read it AFTER reading this one. This text is much less linear. Instead of starting with dots and working your way to lines to circles and rectangles - this one is is more like dots to moving dots to interactive dots to -oh-yeah-other-shapes-work-the-same-way-too.

Understood everything that wasn't clear from my previous other readings. The best book i could find and can suggest.