This book 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.
This book shows in a good-humored and sympathetic way how the artistic and practical sides of programming are the same, delving into the methods of coding, the history of art, and the ways in which artists and audiences interact and benefit each other.
Not confined to a single language or style of coding, this book provides a widely applicable framework for people to learn what languages and styles work best for them at present and as the field evolves. It can be used as a classroom text or for personal study and enrichment.
By:
Richard Garfinkle (Oakland University USA)
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781032606064
ISBN 10: 1032606061
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 22 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Section I: Everything Humans Do Is Art. 1. All Art Everywhere since Time Began. 2. What Programming Does Best. 3. User as Audience. 4. Programmer as Artist. 5. The Five Programming Actions as Techniques. 6. Languages as Materials. Section II: Too Much Information. 7. Information Theory. 8. Human Perception and Measurement. 9. Data as Information at a Distance. 10. Data Structures as Architecture and Furniture for Data. 11. Functions and Objects. 12. Interfaces: Creating Shapes, Flows, and Empty Spaces. 13. Practice, Experimentation, and Playing with Possibility. 14. Artworks and Human Needs. 15. Combining Coding with Other Arts. Section III: Foreground: Artist’s Life. 16. What Is Needed?. 17. What Do You Enjoy Making?. 18. Working Alone. 19. Working with Others. 20. Clients and Audiences. 21. Support Network. 22. Making Money. 23. Intellectual Property. 24. Art as Life.
Richard Garfinkle is a computer programmer and author of science and math popularizations and science fiction and fantasy novels. He is married to a visual artist. Richard attended the University of Chicago and majored in mathematics. He has been programming since the era of punch cards and paper tapes.
