Processing.py Tutorials

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I while back, in the old forum, somebody was seeking Processing.py books/PDFs/videos.

I’ve also been looking and couldn’t find quite what I needed for my students – so I’ve started writing an online textbook:
https://tabreturn.github.io/#processing-reverse

I know there’s “Getting Started with Processing.py”, but this is something more like Ira Greenberg’s book (except in Python). In other words, more general programming and computer science concepts rolled into a visually-oriented, creative programming course.

It’s a work in progress, but six chapters in already! It is designed to serve as a programming fundamentals course for creative technologies students, who will then advance to courses with more Python coding (Web, Apps, Data-viz, AI, etc.).

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Thank you @tabreturn! Very nice materials!

You might want to have a look at Peter Farrell’s book: https://nostarch.com/mathadventures
I follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hackingmath) and he is a big Processing.py fan too.

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Thanks! I’m a big fan of No Starch’s books. Definitely one to add to the collection.

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Amazing! and thanks for sharing your contribution in the forum.
I have just looked up your link, excellent work!

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I just started going through this book, and I love it! Thank you so much!!
The one thing that I’m having a hard time with, though, is the rainbow. I’ve been looking at your code to help, which is fantastic! However, I was wondering if anybody had any pointers on how to determine which pixels to refer to for a shape. For example, starting the rainbow with circle(300, 300, 550) was something I spent a LOT of time trying to figure out on my own, but I wasn’t having much luck until I looked at the code on your GitHub.