Richard Garfinkle (USA Oakland University)

The Muse of Coding

Computer Programming as Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781032606064
• ISBN-10: 1032606061
• Artikelnr.: 69482761

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.