Part 2 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about Polyline shapes and styling shapes by drawing a gingerbread figure ..read more

Part 3 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about Line shapes and drawing a house ..read more

Part 4 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about drawing with paths ..read more

Part 5 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about grouping, cloning, and rotating shapes ..read more

Part 6 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we get more practice by drawing a forest ..read more

Tweening functions allow you to easily add many different styles of natural-seeming movement to the graphics in your program. In this blog post, you'll learn about how tweening functions can make more lively movement animations using Pygame and the PyTweening third-party library. Tweening functions apply to any programming language, but this tutorial has actual Python code for you to run and experiment with. Start by installing these libraries by running from the terminal. Then follow along with the code examples ..read more

4 stars. I came across Selçuk Artut’s while researching several topics on computer-generated art for beginners. I admit, the single 1-star review for this book annoyed me enough to read and review. I’ve come away believing that this book certainly deserves wider and better attention than that ..read more

Here are all the new additions and updates in the third edition ..read more

Thu 15 June 2023 ) covers recursive algorithms, a notoriously tricky subject for programmers and computer science students. I feel like I did a good job writing it (and my editors at No Starch Press did an incredible job editing it), but I wondered how well Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT could understand it. I ran the entire book through to see what mistakes or changes ChatGPT would make. The results were disappointing in some places but pleasantly surprising in others, so I wrote this blog post about the role AI could play in editing technical books ..read more

is an excellent book for professional developers who have some experience with Python but want to take the leap to being a senior Python developer, Python in a Nutshell is required reading ..read more