Books

Books : reviews

Ben Fry.
Visualizing Data.
O'Reilly. 2008

Allison Parrish, Ben Fry, Casey Reas.
Getting Started with Processing.py: making interactive graphics with Python's Processing mode.
Maker Media. 2016

This book by the creators of Processing is the best starting point for anyone interested in using the Python syntax for making drawings, animations, and interactive images.

With this handy book, readers can learn how to get started with interactive graphics even if they have no programming experience. Processing, a programming environment, makes it easy for anyone to create visual art in real time. Now Processing.py takes Processing to the Python programming language!

With Getting Started with Processing.py, you’ll learn to make interactive graphics using Python’s powerful plugin modules!

•Introduces readers to the world of creative coding without having to leave the comfortable world of Python
• Opens Python to a wider audience: artists, designers, educators, beginners
• Excellent book for getting young people engaged with computing
• Written by the authors of the original Processing language and an expert in Python

Processing.py is a library that starts with the original goal of Processing, to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners, and integrates it with the popular programming language Python.