The Art of Coding ― The Language of Drawing, Graphics, and Animation

The aim of this book is to bring programming skills closer to the reader by presenting coding in a visual way. The book approaches programming not as a discrete or discontinuous set of skills, but rather as an approach to creativity, or a constellation of ideas. The book will discuss interactions between images and text, music and text, as well as music and images, all in the context of programming, visualization, and the media. The authors explore various learning styles with a focus on the use of online-streamed video tutorials and project based approaches. The book will also feature a collection of learning projects for students and instructors to select specific themes from.

Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie is a lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. His background is in computing and journalism and his artistic interests focuses on the interconnections between artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, robotics and digital art. He has several publications in the field of swarm intelligence and biologically inspired algorithms, analysing their performance and providing possible integration strategies. Many of Mohammad's projects on the aforementioned fields have been well received and sponsored by external entities (i.e. Luz by VIDA Fundacion Telefonica competition of art and artificial intelligence 13th edition, Swarms Go Dutch by the American University of Paris and Mr Confused Robotic Household by Goldsmiths Annual Fund, University of London). He has organised several events, including computational art exhibitions, chaired various symposiums and severed as a guest-editor in a recent special issue journal for Taylor & Francis's Connection Science.

Anna Ursyn, PhD, is a professor and Computer Graphics, Area Head at the School of Art and Design, University of Northern Colorado, USA. She co-wrote two book chapters on coding for visuals. She combines programming with software and printmaking media, to unify computer generated and painted images, and mixed-media sculptures. Ursyn had over 30 single juried and invitational art shows, participated in over 100 juried and invitational fine art exhibitions, such as: over a dozen times in ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries and traveling shows.

Theodor Wyeld is currently a Lecturer in Digital Media at Flinders University, Australia. He is on a number of review committees and has published widely. Attracting more than 2 million in grants and venture capital, he is the inventor of 'thereitis.com'. The patented 'thereitis' technology is the culmination of 10 years of research in usability studies on how to better support the sorting of large collections of images. Between 2004 and 2009 he was a research associate with the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. He has an extensive background in architecture, planning and digital media production. He is completing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.