Walk with veteran author Andrew Glassner on a journey of shared discovery as he uses Processing to take each project from inspiration to reality. You'll closely follow every step he takes and see exactly how each piece evolves, inccluding the big and small mistakes he's made along the way (and how to fix them!), and the times when he changed direction. As your knowledge and skills grow and develop, you'll understand why Processing is such a powerful tool for self-expression. And you'll be ready to strike out on your own.

Processing offers you a 21st-century medium for expressing new kinds of ideas and engaging audiences in new ways. This book gives you everything you need to know to explore new frontiers in your own images, animations, and interactive experiences.

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The book is full-color throughout, and is loaded with hundreds of color figures and full programs.

Although the book teaches programming, this is not a traditional programming book. The philosophy is that artists and designers are not interested in programming for its own sake, but only as a means to an end: creating expressive work. So the book doesn't take programming ideas in the traditional order, and we don't pursue them in the traditional way. Rather, the book works through a series of visual projects, and introduces the programming ideas that are necessary to do that job. Over the course of the book we cover everything the complete core language of Processing 1.1, but the emphasis is always on creating work, not programming itself.

The book is published by AK Peters. You can buy a copy at your local bookstore, directly from AK Peters, or order it at online stores such as Amazon or Barnes and Noble.