Programming Interactivity, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book is broken into three parts. The first introduces the three projects that will be used throughout this book, the second introduces some of the most common themes in creating interaction in designs and applications, and the third introduces some of the more advanced topics that you may want to explore further. Also included with some of the chapters are interviews with programmers, artists, designers, and authors who work with the tools covered in this book. Covering such a massive range of topics means that this book doesn’t go into great depth about most of them, but it is filled with references to other books, websites, designers, and artists that you may find helpful or inspiring.

What Is—and Isn’t—in This Book

My excitement about the ideas and rapid growth of the field of interaction design is hard to contain. However, as exciting and far-reaching as interaction design is, the limitations of time and physical book size dictate that I be selective about what is and isn’t covered in this book.

What’s In

This book covers Processing, Arduino, and openFrameworks. To help novice programmers, it covers some of the core elements of programming in C and C++ for Arduino and openFrameworks and also covers the Processing language. We introduce dozens of libraries for openFrameworks and Processing—too many to list here. Some of these are official libraries or add-ons for the two frameworks, and some are simply extensions that have been created for this book or provided by altruistic ...