The Nature of Code (2012)
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1. VECTORS
2. FORCES
3. OSCILLATION
4. PARTICLE SYSTEMS
5. PHYSICS LIBRARIES
6. AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
7. CELLULAR AUTOMATA
8. FRACTALS
9. THE EVOLUTION OF CODE
10. NEURAL NETWORKS
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=natureofcode.com
Discussions with more than one comment:
- Release announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300510
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060179
The Nature of Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157721 - May 2020 (1 comment)
The Nature of Code – evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632361 - April 2019 (8 comments)
Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18122940 - Oct 2018 (12 comments)
The Nature of Code (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410201 - May 2017 (16 comments)
The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295139 - Jan 2017 (1 comment)
The Nature of Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8060179 - July 2014 (15 comments)
Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300510 - Aug 2013 (29 comments)
* The Nature of Code free online book with live examples* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5153895 - Feb 2013 (2 comments)
Daniel Shiffman launches "The Nature of Code" online for free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709551 - Oct 2012 (11 comments)
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FWIW, here's the Arc code I wrote to generate a string of the form "Italicized Title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=$ID - Month Year (n comments)". The variable i stands for item, which is HN's term for a post (story, comment, or poll):
(def biblioref (i)
(let mon (monthdate (date i!time) 'short)
(tostring
(if (astorypoll i)
(do (pr "*" (subst i!title "*" "\\*") "* - " (fullurl:item-url i!id)
" - " mon" (" (plural i!klive "comment") ")"))
(do (pr (fullurl:item-url i!id))
(unless (is mon (monthdate (date) 'short))
(pr " (" mon ")")))))))
Here's one I use to decide from a list of free-form submissions whether to generate a link or a Google search:
(fn [pair-of]
(let [text (get pair-of 1)]
(cond
(clojure.string/starts-with? text "http")
(list [:a {:href text} (truncate text 60)] [:br])
:else (list [:a {:href (str "https://google.com/search?q=" text)} text] [:br]))))
I implemented all of the book almost 10 years ago in Python and pygame. I was starting to code professionally back then and it is responsible for much of the confidence I needed. It definitely is more about nature and math than code. If you're the kind of hands on learner like I am, then I'd recommend using this as a resource to learn to code first before learning about theorectical data structures. Thanks to the author, I am now in a position to buy it :)
Teaching this way will actually motivate students to understand Science since they can program the evidence and convince themselves of the "Scientific Truth" of what they have studied.
When I first started programing, I was convinced that text applications weren't real programs, and the visual aspect of the book pulled me in to be a life-time programmer :)