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Getting Started with Processing.py: Making Interactive Graphics with Processing's Python Mode (Make:) 1st Edition

by Allison Parrish (Author), Ben Fry (Author), Casey Reas (Author)
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Processing opened up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. The Processing.py Python implementation of Processing reinterprets it for today's web. This short book gently introduces the core concepts of computer programming and working with Processing. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Reas and Fry, along with co-author Allison Parrish, Getting Started with Processing.py is your fast track to using Python's Processing mode.
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Allison Parrish is an artist and programmer, currently residing in Brooklyn. She has 10 years of professional programming experience, with an emphasis on programming for the Web.

Ben Fry has a doctorate from the MIT Media Laboratory and was the 2006-2007 Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He worked with Casey Reas to develop Processing, which won a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Ben's work has received a New Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Ars Electronica, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and the 2003 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With Ben Fry, he co-founded Processing in 2001. He is the co-author of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (2007) and Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (2010). His work is archived at www.reas.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (June 28, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1457186837
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    Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree from MIT’s Media Lab, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Ben’s work has appeared in museums such as the Whitney, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Museum of Modern Art, and in the films Minority Report and The Hulk. His information graphics have illustrated articles for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the journal Nature. In 2011, Ben won the National Design Award for Interaction Design; he was also selected as one of Fast Company‘s 50 Most Influential Designers in America and as one of Slate‘s Top Right. He has lectured on data, design, and programming on five continents, and is the author of three books.

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    REAS is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. With Ben Fry, he initiated Processing in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. More information can be found online at http://processing.org. Reas' software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. This work is archived at http://reas.com.

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    Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet and game designer. Named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by the Village Voice in 2016, her computer-generated poetry has recently been published in Ninth Letter and Vetch. She is the author of "@Everyword: The Book" (Instar, 2015), which collects the output of her popular long-term automated writing project that tweeted every word in the English language. Allison is a member of the full-time faculty at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and lives in Brooklyn.

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Golan Levin
5.0 out of 5 stars A Python 'port' of a classic introductory text
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Basic Processing Book.
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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.
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Buckwheat
5.0 out of 5 stars Mejor referencia para Processing.py
Reviewed in Mexico on May 23, 2019
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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 guía completa y sin muchos rollos.
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38Red
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent intro to creative coding
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2019
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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.
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Stephen Adams
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for beginners to processing
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A good book for beginners to processing. Good examples.
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