Make Art with Python was written to teach creative people the joy of computer programming.If you've tried to learn programming with traditional books or online courses, only to get stuck, this book is for you. With step by step, visual programs, we teach the fundamentals of computer programming so creative people can understand.
Make Art with Python teaches programming for creative people.
If you've struggled with learning programming in the past, or have thought to yourself that you'd never learn to program, this is the book for you.
It takes a non-traditional approach to teaching computer science and programming through visual programs.
Most programming books or courses focus on math problems and text manipulation as ways to teach the fundamentals of computer programming. Instead, Make Art with Python focuses on building creative, visual programs to learn the basics of computer programming and computer science.
If you've never considered yourself a "math" person, or you consider yourself a language, or visual first learner, the exercises will quickly get you up and running. You'll be writing your first program right from the beginning, and each chapter will bring about a new, fundamental insight about the process of programming.
Author(s): Kirk Kaiser
Publisher: Leanpub
Year: 2019
Table of Contents
Introduction - Learning to Program with Art and Python
Why Art
Why Python
The Creative Process of Programming
The Journey of Becoming A Programmer
No ``Right Way''
Chapter One: A Tutorial Introduction
Getting Python
The Terminal: A Program to Control Programs
Writing Our First Program
How the Development Cycle Works
The Editor: A Place for Writing Programs
Chapter Two: Computational Thinking
The Loop
The Variable
Python Data Types
Control Flow
Syntax
Bringing It All Together
Chapter Three: Writing Our First Graphics Program
Drawing Our First Pixel
How to Read Our Code
Editing Our Code
Turning Pixels into a Line with a Loop
Changing Our Line's Direction
Flipping Our Diagonal Line
A Final Challenge
Chapter Four: Functions Are The Building Blocks of Programs
From Pixels to Lines, Putting the Fun in Function
The Mechanics of Writing A Function
Testing Your Functions as You Go
Drawing Randomness with Our New Function
Combining Our Functions for New Effects
Chapter Five: Reading the User's Mind With Input
Do What the Humans Tell You
Grabbing the User's Input
Lists Are Lines of Variables, All in A Row
Creating a List, Adding Things to Your List
Chapter Six: More Playing with Loops
Drawing with Our New Cursor
Drawing with Our New Cursor
Looping a Fade
Making Our Fade into a Wave
Fading Colors to Make Rainbows
More Experimenting
Chapter Seven: Inventing Ideas with Classes
Drawing in New Ways
Making Your Ideas Part of the Language
Creating Our Line Class
Planning Your Class Design
Rethinking How We Draw
Drawing with the Mouse
Cleaning Up Our Code with Class
Chapter Eight: Inventing New Ways to Draw with Shapes
Exploring Pygame's Drawing Methods
Giving Our Class New Features
Colorizing Our Lines
Chapter Nine: Playing with Files
Setting Up Our Directories
Reading Options from the Command Line
Using IPython to Inspect New Libraries
Saving Our Drawings with Pickle
Adding Undo to Our Program
Using Time to Add Delay to Our Undo
Protecting Ourselves from Errors
Chapter Ten: Painting with Images
Dissecting an Image
Manipulating Whole Images
Making Mirror Images
Creating Geometric Images
Turning Our Images into Videos
Chapter Eleven: Drawing Infinities
The Three Regular Polygons that Tesselate the Plane
Drawing A Centered Triangle
Checking the Distance of Triangles
Drawing Our Flipped Triangles in the Right Places
Making Our Tesselations More Interesting
Tesselating Hexagons
Colorizing Our Hexagons
Chapter Twelve: Inventing Interactive Tesselations
Survey the Problem Space
Discover the Rules
Draw It First
Make It Interactive
Making a Plan of Attack (For Code)
Drawing a Square From Scratch
Adding Midpoints To Our Square's Lines
Selecting A Point
Finding the Opposite Point in the Square
Bringing It All Together to Draw
Tesselating Our New Shape
Chapter Thirteen: Exporting Our Tesselations for Print
Rendering Vector Graphics
Adjusting Our Tesselation's Thickness
Creating Glitches in Our Tessellations
Colorizing our Tesselations with Inkscape
Exploring Further
