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Ask HN: Need a book recommendation
Hi!
A friend of mine is a really good designer mostly for DTP and Layout. Usually we both work as a team. Me programming and he "designing" but he's moving.
I want to make him a gift, to motivate him learning programming. Not low level, but programming which is useful for designers like him. E.g. Scripting for DTP programs or writing macros or little tools (in ruby/python e.g.)
So I search a book for him to start.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
- sky87 16y agoI would suggest "Processing, a programming handbook for visual designers and artists" by Reas, Fry. It is a lovely book for visual designers with lots of (mostly short) snippets side by side to graphic outputs doing cool stuff, all organized by themes
- waffenklang 16y agoBut isnt it just for the processing language and the processing tools? My intention was on ordinary dtp programs like CS suite. (so propably jscript?)
- ashleyreddy 16y agoIf he's on windows get him a book on powershell. It great for automating tasks.