Learn JavaScript with p5.js: Coding for Visual Learners

Learn coding from scratch in a highly engaging and visual manner using the vastly popular JavaScript with the programming library p5.js. The skills you will acquire from this book are highly transferable to a myriad of industries and can be used towards building web applications, programmable robots, or generative art.

You’ll gain the proper context so that you can build a strong foundation for programming. This book won’t hinder your momentum with irrelevant technical or theoretical points. The aim is to build a strong, but not overly excessive knowledge to get you up and running with coding.

If you want to program creative visuals and bring that skill set to a field of your your choice, then Learn JavaScript with p5.js is the book for you.

What You’ll Learn

• Code from scratch and create computer graphics with JavaScript and the p5.js library
• Gain the necessary skills to move into your own creative projects
• Create graphics and interactive experiences using Processing
• Program using JavaScript and p5.js and secondarily in creating visuals

Who This Book is For

Artists or a visual designers. Also, those who want to learn the fundamentals of programming through visual examples.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Colors in p5.js
Chapter 4: Operators and Variables
Chapter 5: Conditional Statements and Comparison Operators
Chapter 6: More p5.js Variables
Chapter 7: Loops
Chapter 8: Functions
Chapter 9: Objects
Chapter 10: Arrays
Chapter 11: Events
Chapter 12: More on p5.js
Chapter 13: Final Project