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Learning Processing, 2nd Edition

by Daniel Shiffman
September 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
564 pages
13h 28m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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10

Algorithms

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

—Unknown

10-1 Where have we been? Where are we going?

Our friend Zoog had a nice run. Zoog taught you the basics of the shape drawing libraries in Processing. From there, Zoog advanced to interacting with the mouse, to moving autonomously via variables, changing direction with conditionals, expanding its body with a loop, organizing its code with functions, encapsulating its data and functionality into an object, and finally duplicating itself with an array. It’s a good story, and one that treated us well. Nonetheless, it’s highly unlikely that all of the programming projects you intend to do after reading this book will involve a collection of alien creatures jiggling around the screen (if they do, you are one ...

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ISBN: 9780123947925