The Muse of Coding

ISBN-13: 9781032606071 / Twarda / 2024 / 300 str.

USA) Garfinkle Richard (Oakland University

Opis

The Muse of Coding gives students and experienced programmers a way to see coding as an art and themselves as artists whose personal views, experiences and ways of thinking can make their programs better for themselves and their users.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

 

Section I Everything Humans Do is Art

 

Chapter 1. All Art Everywhere Since Time Began

Chapter 2. What Programming Does Best

Chapter 3. User as Audience

Chapter 4. Programmer as Artist

Chapter 5. The Five Programming Actions as Techniques

Chapter 6. Languages as Materials

 

Section II Too Much Information

 

Chapter 7. Information Theory

Chapter 8. Human Perception and Measurement

Chapter 9. Data as Information at a Distance

Chapter 10. Data Structures as Architecture and Furniture for Data

Chapter 11. Functions and Objects

Chapter 12. Interfaces: Creating Shapes, Flows and Empty Spaces
Chapter 13. Practice, Experimentation and Playing with Possibility

Chapter 14. Artworks and Human needs

Chapter 15. Combining Coding with Other Arts

 

Section III Foreground: Artist’s Life

 

Chapter 16. What is Needed?

Chapter 17. What Do You Enjoy Making?

Chapter 18. Working Alone

Chapter 19. Working With Others

Chapter 20. Clients and Audiences

Chapter 21. Support Network
Chapter 22. Making Money

Chapter 23. Intellectual Property

Chapter 24. Art as Life

O autorze

Richard Garfinkle is a computer programmer and author of science and math popularizations, science fiction and fantasy novels, married to a visual artist.  He attended the University of Chicago, majoring in mathematics.  He has been programming since the era of punch cards and papertape.