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Daniel Shiffman launches "The Nature of Code" online for free
- mattyfo 14y agoAwesome!! His first book 'Learning Processing' is what got me back into coding after a 5 year hiatus. Processing is a really fun language for experimenting and this should be a good book.
- runemadsen 14y agoYes, he's great. His choice of publishing model is also interesting (free online and pay for print). Reminds me of the Radiohead - In rainbows album, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
- joshuakarjala 14y agoWell he did raise 31k on Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiffman/the-nature-of-code-book-project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiffman/the-nature-of-c...
- zapt02 14y agolooks amazing!
- patrickod 14y agoCan't wait to get a print copy of this. I've been looking forward to seeing this Kickstarter realized for some time now.
- gwern 14y agoGiven the interactivity, are you sure you want a print copy?
- patrickod 14y agoEven though I own a Kindle I really like to browse and read through print copies of technical books. Not quite able to pin what exactly I like about it.
- unimpressive 14y agoI find that most E-readers are mainly sequential access, with random access as a feature to be explicitly called. Whereas physical books or codexes are usually read sequentially, but are easier to use for random access.
- coroxout 14y agoThis is excellent news, thank you. I've heard many good things about this book (mostly on HN!) and on first glance it looks very interesting indeed. Edit: since this is the launch it must have the tutorials that turned into the book which I heard good things about - having read a few of them, I'm looking forward to the book version.
- ddon 14y agoWow, great news! I was following his Kickstarter progress for some time, and was waiting for printed book, but online and free, this is great!!! Can't wait to check to out... His site is down at the moment for some reason...
- scrumper 14y agoIt looks like a more practical, interactive version of Gary Flake's wonderful "Computational Beauty of Nature." That's not a bad thing at all.