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Shiffman's Raindrop
Nov 16th, 2008, 11:45pm
 
Hey guys,

So I finished the first half of Learning Processing by David Shiffman, (got it back in late september) and the book does a pretty good job of teaching Processing. It's WAY easier to learn from Shiffman than it is Aaron Hillegass, who wrote supposedly the best xCode book out there (not impressed).

If there's one criticism or wish I had about the book it's that I wish there was a chapter somewhere after Objects but before Algorithms that was dedicated to the Return type and how to use it. The book mentions it but only briefly at best, and it's something I wish I had a better handle on since the only functions I know how to write with confidence are void functions.

Anyways, if any of you out there got Learning Processing and are stuck on Chapter 10's Algorithm problem, here is a full solution with links to the executables. I had a lot of fun with it even though some things were trickier than others. I might add sound later but seeing as how that involves adding a library, I didn't want to make the source code look too complex for other learner's like myself.

Here's the executables:
http://www.muldisdesigns.com/SID/Raindrop.zip

And the sourcecode:
http://www.muldisdesigns.com/SID/source.zip
Re: Shiffman's Raindrop
Reply #1 - Nov 17th, 2008, 7:38pm
 
Great job, thanks for posting this!  I'm working on new tutorials for the Processing web site, maybe we'll add something about functions / return values.  I'll put it on my list. . .

Thanks!
Dan
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