daniel shiffman

Ok, so I may very well be one of the slowest writers ever, but I am pleased to finally announce that I have completed a draft chapter for what I hope will become my next book: The Nature of Code. Based on my experience getting Learning Processing out into the world I’ve decided to [...]

As an addendum to the previous post, here’s an early draft excerpt from Chapter 7 on steering behaviors, more specifically a tutorial related to my new path following examples. Also an excuse to cover the dot product in more detail. All based on Craig Reynolds of course.

This semester, I’ve started working on expanding my nature of code tutorials into a book. My plan is to self-publish (looking into a few options) and have drafts available for download / purchase as early as this summer. I’ll also be publishing excerpts from the book as tutorials on [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that my book, Learning Processing, is now available for purchase. If you are local to NYC, you can buy the book at the NYU bookstore.
Amazon says “out of stock”, but I’m told by the publisher that this is an error and they do, in fact, [...]

I’m pleased to announce that my new programming with Processing book will be released this August (by the end of the month). You can pre-order the book from Amazon, download a sample chapter from the web site, and, yes, even become a fan of the book on facebook (since that’s what all the [...]

Now, I am rather overdue for an update on my upcoming book. I’ll be posting details soon. However, in the course of finishing up a chapter on String parsing, I discovered that my good friend, the Google SOAP API is no longer being supported (obviously, I’m a little late on the ball [...]