New Processing Books
2 Comments Published February 4th, 2010 in General, books, processing.org, publishing
It seems like every day I hear about another Processing book being published (or soon to be published). Joshua Noble’s recent book includes Processing along with openFrameworks and Arduino: Programming Interactivity: A Designer’s Guide to Processing, Arduino, and Openframeworks. Processing for Visual Artists is another new book I know little about, but am excited to check out. And I’m particularly thrilled for the upcoming Getting Started with Processing. An inexpensive, short beginner’s guide is a big gaping hole in the landscape of Processing books and this book should fill it nicely. It’s really what I imagined Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to be, but the book ballooned a bit into a more comprehensive beginner textbook. Hopefully Casey and Ben’s new book can introduce a lot of new people to Processing.
Finally, Ira Greenberg’s new book The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers recently came out. And if you didn’t notice, I wrote the forward! Which, strangely enough, means that my name is somehow on the cover along with Ira’s. Which is pretty crazy considering that I only wrote a few short paragraphs.
Oh and I still am working on a The Nature of Code book, with more PDF chapters to be available soon!
Yes! Keep The Nature of Code book coming I’ll definitely add that to my Processing library! Your first chapter has been a wonderful introduction into a somewhat bewildering topic for me. Thanks a million!
The programming interactivity book is really interesting – I am reading it at the same time as your book ‘learning processing’
It’s a bit more advance (even if they go trough the basic of programming – a bit of experience in these fields helps a lot) but it’s a nice second step after your book in a sense that it bring processing into a bigger picture of interactivity and world use and how it interact with Arduino.
Also the foundation C knowledge in the book create a confortable link to a well known programming language. Thus making it clear that processing is a ‘real’ programming language, built nicely and incorporating the foundation from the ‘real’ programming language like C .
It’s interesting that after may years of working in the computer field, learning php (but never completely) css, javascript… ~ hacking more than programming really (I’ve always stop my learning before array and classes), it’s trough processing that I really start to learn programming, using your book!
Looking forward for you new book too !
thanks