The Nature of Code

Contents in Detail

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What Is This Book?

A Word About p5.js

What Do You Need to Know?

How Are You Reading This Book?

The Coding Train Connection

Additional Resources

The “Story” of This Book

Part 1: Inanimate Objects

Part 2: It’s Alive!

Part 3: Intelligence

Using This Book as a Syllabus

How to Read the Code

Full Examples

Complete Snippets

Context-Free Code

Snipped Code

Exercises

Solutions

The Ecosystem Project

Getting Help and Submitting Feedback

0Randomness

Random Walks

The Random Walker Class

Example 0.1: A Traditional Random Walk

Example 0.2: A Random-Number Distribution

Probability and Nonuniform Distributions

Example 0.3: A Walker That Tends to Move to the Right

A Normal Distribution of Random Numbers

Example 0.4: ...