[HN Gopher] The Nature of Code (2012)
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The Nature of Code (2012)
Author : pelasaco
Score : 179 points
Date : 2023-04-25 10:48 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (natureofcode.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (natureofcode.com)
| thetrustworthy wrote:
| The author said a 2nd edition will be out later this year:
| https://twitter.com/shiffman/status/1646961509833011201?s=20
| newswasboring wrote:
| The homepage puts "Receive lifetime book updates for free", I
| guess that would mean second editions?
| who-shot-jr wrote:
| Daniel Shiffman is amazing! An excellent teacher.
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| grungegun wrote:
| Loved this book.
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| When I first started programing, I was convinced that text
| applications weren't real programs, and the visual aspect of the
| book pulled me in to be a life-time programmer :)
| sumanmichael wrote:
| Such a lovely book. Try it, go fall in love with nature -o-f- and
| code.
| archerx wrote:
| Check out "coding train" on YouTube if you haven't already. Love
| how he teaches coding, mistakes and all.
| afry1 wrote:
| One of my absolute favorite YT coding channels, I will second
| that recommendation!
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| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
| autopilot23 wrote:
| This is one of the first books I read when learning how to code
| :)
| tromp wrote:
| Given the contents: 1. VECTORS 2.
| FORCES 3. OSCILLATION 4. PARTICLE SYSTEMS
| 5. PHYSICS LIBRARIES 6. AUTONOMOUS AGENTS 7.
| CELLULAR AUTOMATA 8. FRACTALS 9. THE EVOLUTION OF
| CODE 10. NEURAL NETWORKS
|
| a title "The Code of Nature" would also seem appropriate...
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| Yes that is the play on words here! They are all aiming to
| simulate physical processes and such.
| tromp wrote:
| Yep; they also could have gone with "Natural code", or "Code
| natural" ...
| chaosprint wrote:
| Great book. I got inspired by this book and the other one
| (https://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nm_algorith...)
| last year and made an logistic map function random notes example
| for the music programming language I created:
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| https://glicol.org/demo#chaos
| phonescreen_man wrote:
| Great author and one of the best teachers! This book is being
| rewritten to use JavaScripts p5js- original version is written
| for Java processing.
| macintux wrote:
| Submitted every few months for years now, not a lot of
| conversation.
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=natureofcode.com
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| Discussions with more than one comment:
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| - Release announcement:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551
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| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300510
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| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060179
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| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410201
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| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632361
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
|
| _The Nature of Code_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157721 - May 2020 (1
| comment)
|
| _The Nature of Code - evolutionary and emergent properties of
| nature in code_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632361
| - April 2019 (8 comments)
|
| _Generative Coding - "The Nature of Code" Ported to Three.js_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18122940 - Oct 2018 (12
| comments)
|
| _The Nature of Code (2012)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410201 - May 2017 (16
| comments)
|
| _The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with
| Processing [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295139 - Jan 2017 (1
| comment)
|
| _The Nature of Code_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060179 - July 2014 (15
| comments)
|
| _Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and
| illustrations_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300510 -
| Aug 2013 (29 comments)
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| * The Nature of Code free online book with live examples* -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5153895 - Feb 2013 (2
| comments)
|
| _Daniel Shiffman launches "The Nature of Code" online for
| free_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551 - Oct 2012
| (11 comments)
| iknownothow wrote:
| If you're a beginner absolutely give it a try!
|
| I implemented all of the book almost 10 years ago in Python and
| pygame. I was starting to code professionally back then and it is
| responsible for much of the confidence I needed. It definitely is
| more about nature and math than code. If you're the kind of hands
| on learner like I am, then I'd recommend using this as a resource
| to learn to code first before learning about theorectical data
| structures. Thanks to the author, I am now in a position to buy
| it :)
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