Processing: An Introduction to Programming by Jeffrey L. Nyhoff (English) Paperb

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This book demonstrates how Processing is an excellent language for beginners to learn the fundamentals of computer programming. Originally designed to make it simpler for digital artists to learn to program, Processing is a wonderful first language for anyone to learn. Given its origins, Processing enables a multimodal approach to programming instruction, well suited to students with interests in computer science or in the arts and humanities. The book uses Processing's capabilities for graphics and interactivity in order to create examples that are simple, illustrative, interesting, and fun. It is designed to appeal to a broad range of readers, including those who want to learn to program to create digital art, as well as those who seek to learn to program to process numerical information or data. It can be used by students and instructors in a first course on programming, as well as by anyone eager to teach them self to program.Following a traditional sequence of topics for introducing programming, the book introduces key computer science concepts, without overwhelming readers with extensive detail. The conversational style and pace of the book are based upon the authors' extensive experience with teaching programming to a wide variety of beginners in a classroom. No prior programming experience is expected.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Jeff Nyhoff, Ph.D., is Professor of Computer Science at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois.Larry Nyhoff, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Table of Contents

ForewordPreface: Why We Wrote This Book and For Whom It Is Written AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welcome to Computer ProgrammingChapter 1 Basic Drawing in ProcessingChapter 2 Types, Expressions, and VariablesChapter 3 More about Using Processing' s Built-In FunctionsChapter 4 Conditional Programming with ifChapter 5 Repetition with a Loop: The while StatementChapter 6 Creating Counting Loops Using the for StatementChapter 7 Creating void FunctionsChapter 8 Creating Functions That Return a ValueChapter 9 ArraysChapter 10 Introduction to ObjectsINDEX

Review

"[This] new book directly targets the CS classroom in a way that no other Processing book does….[The authors] present a much less reactionary approach integrating many of the wonderful things about Processing with traditional approaches that have worked well in CS pedagogy. Not only is their approach sensible and efficient, it's also likely to offer greater comfort to existing CS instructors (who perhaps don't have degrees in theater or painting.) It is this effort of considerate integration-of the old tried and true and new and improved-that I believe has the greatest chance of tipping the balance for Processing's use in the computing classroom."--Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA

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"[This] new book directly targets the CS classroom in a way that no other Processing book does....[The authors] present a much less reactionary approach integrating many of the wonderful things about Processing with traditional approaches that have worked well in CS pedagogy. Not only is their approach sensible and efficient, it's also likely to offer greater comfort to existing CS instructors (who perhaps don't have degrees in theater or painting.) It is this effort of considerate integration-of the old tried and true and new and improved-that I believe has the greatest chance of tipping the balance for Processing's use in the computing classroom." --Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA

Details ISBN1482255952 Author Larry R. Nyhoff ISBN-10 1482255952 ISBN-13 9781482255959 Format Paperback Subtitle An Introduction to Programming Place of Publication Oakville DEWEY 005.133 Short Title PROCESSING Language English Media Book Year 2017 Pages 544 Affiliation Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Illustrations 873 Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2017-05-16 UK Release Date 2017-05-16 Alternative 9781138373716 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint Chapman & Hall/CRC Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2017-05-16 We've got this

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