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Book Title (prize! reward!) (Read 3764 times)

Daniel Shiffman

Book Title (prize! reward!)
Mar 2^nd, 2008, 4:42pm

Dear most wonderful Processing community,

As some of you may know, I've been working for quite some time on a Processing book, a complement to the great tomes of Casey/Ben and Ira. The book is meant to be for the very very very beginner, someone who has never seen a line of code in their life, walking them through very slowly the fundamentals (pixels, variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, objects.) It also includes tutorials on a few more advanced topics (3D, image processing, network communication, etc.) It's also designed with teaching a class in mind, with the topics grouped into "lessons" with many exercises, etc.

I'm at the end stage now (the book should be out this Spring/Summer), and I'm stuck trying to figure out a title. Right now, based on discussions from the publisher, I've got:

-- Pixels, Programming, and Processing: Learning to Create with Code.
-- Learning Processing: Creating with Code

So I turn to you, Processing community, if anyone comes up with a great title and I use it, I will buy you a copy of one of the other Processing books (your choice!) and you'll get a free copy of mine when it comes out!!!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or feedback!

Dan

http://www.learningprocessing.com | http://www.shiffman.net | http://itp.nyu.edu

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #1 - Mar 2^nd, 2008, 5:00pm "Pushing Pixels for Fun and Profit"

jorgecardoso YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 42	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2008, 5:33pm I've got a couple of great titles "Programming for the Creative Mind" "Coding Ideas in Processing" "Processing your Imagination: Learning to Program" I'll probably buy your book even if I don't win the prize jorge
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thiago_pimentel

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Reply #3 - Mar 3^rd, 2008, 2:26am

here's my contribution:

-- Beginning Processing: Creativity with Code
-- Beginning Processing: Creative Media
-- Learning Processing: Fun with Code
-- Processing: Sketching Ideas with Code
-- Foundations of Creative Code with Processing
-- Processing: Combining Elements from the Arts and Computer Programming

i look forward to reading your book once i'm a very beginner, even if i don't win the prize.

nicholasparedes

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Reply #4 - Mar 3^rd, 2008, 8:01pm

Processing Creativity: The Creativity of Processing

Being the graphic designer that I am, I do like things like: Creativity + Processing: Processing + Creativity

Creative Process: Processing in creative arts
Code: Create (I can’t resist a Code Complete analogy)

I’ll digest this a bit…

Your online materials have been helpful by the way.

N

johnclavin

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Reply #5 - Mar 3^rd, 2008, 9:19pm

I think that the book title should start with the word "Processing" so that it easily shows up in searches and when someone searches in Amazon or other online book stores, all 3 (or 4) Processing books will all show up together.
So my first suggestion is:

"Processing: Creating Art and Visualizing Data with Computer Code"

My second suggestion would be to keep it simple:

"Processing: Creating Art with Computer Code"

dek Junior Member Offline Posts: 89 Germany	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #6 - Mar 4^th, 2008, 9:06pm "Beginning Processing: Creative Pixel Control" And if you ever did a followup book on hardware i/o you could call it: "Beginning Arduino: Creative Electron Control"
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acapulco Junior Member Offline Posts: 63	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #7 - Mar 13^th, 2008, 1:39am "Processing code for art processing" "From eye to code: The Processing art"

Manic Full Member Offline Posts: 123	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #8 - Mar 16^th, 2008, 11:22am "Hey! That's pretty!" "'You did what now?' : Confuse older relatives with things they'll never understand" "Your first variable" or maybe more seriously, "Software as Art: Processing"

Scott Murray

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Reply #9 - Mar 21^st, 2008, 10:30pm

Dan, if you consider your audience to be "artists" who are new to code, one of these might be useful:

Proceed into Processing: An Introduction to Code for Artists

Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Expressing Your Artistic Vision with Code

Beginning with Processing: Using Code to Express Your Artistic Vision

Beginning with Processing: How to Create Your Vision with Code

corbs YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #10 - Mar 27^th, 2008, 3:18pm Generative Art: Visual programming for Artists. Pixel Scripting: Making Art with Code.

eskimoblood Senior Member Offline Posts: 341	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #11 - Mar 27^th, 2008, 4:28pm How to be an artist without drawing skills.
	Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

panäkom YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Book Title (prize! reward!) Reply #12 - Mar 28^th, 2008, 12:11am "Processing for dummies"
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alexmiller

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Reply #13 - Mar 29^th, 2008, 10:23am

I don't have any good ideas for a title, but I do have some input. I recommend not targeting the title toward artists. A lot of beginner programers would probably enjoy your book, but would be turned off "art" in the title. Even if your book teaches art-centric programming, it isn't art in the sense a non-programmer would understand it. For example, I would not consider myself an artist, but I am really into creating visual experiments in Processing.

Someone totally unfamiliar with Processing might see a book called "Coding and Art" and think, "Oh well I'm not an artist, so that isn't for me."

You're free to ignore my advice.

Kevin

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Reply #14 - Mar 29^th, 2008, 4:06pm

I really like the term for the course you teach, 'The Nature of Code' - maybe you could use that, as it's kind of your brand.

If you're targeting beginners, getting it aimed directly at them is good. So something like "The Nature of Code - Creating pretty things with Processing"

Or replace Processing with programming if you want to be less Processing specific.

If you don't like that or can't use it for legal reasons you could still build on the idea. I know something like this would be very appealing to me if I saw it on a bookshelf:
"The Beauty of Code - Creating pretty things with Processing"

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