Learn JavaScript with p5.js

Coding for Visual Learners
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3425-9
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 3577 g

Learn coding from scratch in a highly engaging and visual manner using the vastly popular JavaScript with the programming library p5.js. The skills you will acquire from this book are highly transferable to a myriad of industries and can be used towards building web applications, programmable robots, or generative art. 
You'll gain the proper context so that you can build a strong foundation for programming. This book won’t hinder your momentum with irrelevant technical or theoretical points. The aim is to build a strong, but not overly excessive knowledge to get you up and running with coding. 
If you want to program creative visuals and bring that skill set to a field of your your choice, then Learn JavaScript with p5.js is the book for you .
What You'll Learn

• Code from scratch and create computer graphics with JavaScript and the p5.js library
  
• Gain the necessary skills to move into your own creative projects
• Create graphics and interactive experiences using Processing
  
• Program using JavaScript and p5.js and secondarily in creating visuals

Who This Book is For
Artists or a visual designers. Also, those who want to learn the fundamentals of programming through visual examples.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arslan, Engin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Getting Started.- Chapter 3: Colors in p5.js.- Chapter 4: Operators and Variables.- Chapter 5: Conditional Statements and Comparison Operators.- Chapter 6: More p5.js Variables.- Chapter 7: Loops.- Chapter 8: Functions.- Chapter 9: Objects.- Chapter 10: Arrays.- Chapter 11: Events.- Chapter 12: More on p5.js.- Chapter 13: Final Project.- Appendix: Final Words

Über Autor(innen)

Engin Arslan is a Web Developer with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering and a Postgraduate Degree in Visual Effects. Before becoming a Developer, he worked as a Visual Effects Artist / Technical Director on films and TV shows including Resident Evil, Tron, Mama, Pompeii, Vikings and Strain. He received an Emmy Nomination and won a Canadian Screen Award for his achievements in Visual Effects. During his time in VFX, he fell in love with Python and with programming in general. As a result he changed careers to be able to immerse himself completely in software development. Engin currently works at a Toronto-based digital services company, where he helps develop solutions in strategic problem spaces using emerging technologies. He also works at Seneca College as a part-time professor and creates online courses for Lynda/Linkedin and Pluralsight.