September 2015
Beginner
564 pages
13h 28m
English
In the fall of 2001, I wandered into the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, having not written a line of code since the early 1980s, when I’d done some experimenting in BASIC on an AppleII+. There, in a first semester course entitled “Introduction to Computational Media,” I discovered programming. ITP has been my home ever since. Without the inspiration and support of the department, this book would never have been written.
Red Burns, the department’s founder, encouraged and championed me for my first ten years at ITP. Sadly, she passed away in August 2013; this book is dedicated to her legacy. Dan O’Sullivan was the first to suggest that I try a course in Processing, giving ...