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Pros
This book shows you how to simulate natural events in code. It covers vector math, physics, rudimentary ai, and particle systems.
The nature of code teaches how to simulate natural systems using the processing program language. A journey, from vectors to neural networks, all of this packed in a well written book.
Daniel shiffman is one of the tutors i always dreamed off. You can really tell he is passionate about what he is talking about. It's worth finding shiffman's website for this book, so that you get a better appreciation for how he went about publishing... Read More
There are plenty of well explained examples in the book - and that separates it from other books. It's accessible, broadly relevant and most importantly, every chapter is full of fun examples. Not all the exercises set for the reader are solved, but e... Read More
Cons
In just the folder of examples for the introduction there seem two be multiple naming schemes for some code samples, and no apparent naming scheme for others. Kindle version has serious formatting issues.
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Quality
I highly recommend pairing it with the authors vimeo series in which he explains the concepts with a white board and live with processing
It is self published with high quality content and printing
It felt too abstract and simply working with the higher level never gave me an understanding of the the underlying foundation
It is like the book was written and the all the confusing bits were boiled away leaving this final product
Competitiveness
Long long ago i was a lingo programmer coding shockwave games in director
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However there are a number of typesetting and formatting issues on the kindle version as read on both an ipad and laptop that are not on the pdf version
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Ive purchased both and suggest purchasing the pdf version from mr
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Obviously its not going to be a really deep dive into any of these topics but i feel that mr
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It would be of great use to aspiring games coders
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If you want to rediscover all
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I only use a few of the examples with my students as the book is easily long enough to be a text for a whole course
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Despite doing uni courses and constantly being in close contact with code ive never been able to grasp it to a usable level
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It felt too abstract and simply working with the higher level never gave me an understanding of the the underlying foundation
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