CoolThings

Cool programming/computer science/generative art books/videos/articles I've found, they're not necessarily the "best", just what I came across and decided to keep a track of them

Contents

• Books
• Videos
• Blogs/Articles
• Other

Books

• Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman - Techniques on how to simulate life and basic Generative art topics.
• Programming in Lua whateverTH edition - Official Lua programming language book(I think).
• Clean Code by Uncle Bob - A must read for every programmer.
• Generative Art by Matt Pearson - When I first read it I expected only an introdcution to GenArt, but it was filled with emotions, programming by its nature embrace logic and don't welcome chaos and the unpredictable(you don't want logical errors here and there, right?); this book break this rule and show the beauty of chaos, and somehow giving life to code.
• C++ Primer Plus - I remember nothing about it but I'm sure I've read it at some point in life.
• Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming - I don't remember.
• The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts - I re-read it whenever I switch to Linux lol.
• Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes - The cool thing is it follows a project-based teaching system in the second part of the book.
• Cracking The Coding Interview - Read random topics from it and so far it's a nice book.
• Programming C# 8.0 - I just started this book

Videos

• The Art of Code by Dylan Beattie, a must-watch for any GenArtist and fun to watch for any programmer.
• Thoughts on how you should setup a python open source package/repo.
• Juice it or lose it, a cool talk about "tweening" your game
• some autonomus agents art work
• TedX talk on creative talking
• Chaos Theory, has interesting equations
• The Art of Creative Coding, talks about major creative-coding tools
• Branchelss programming
• Darrick Wong Linux Kernel evolution simulation
• I like The Prime Reacts channel
• Someone who used vim for years just starting his coding journy, it's usually the other way around
• A competition of people coding shaders? hell yeah
• Next level of functions graphing; inspiring
• Coding via voice; it feels like vim but without a keyboard
• KDE vs GNOME podcast
• DeathNote themes are fun while coding
• Tmux is cool
• Interesting list of free softwares to make your gamedev life easier
• Physics simulator made by Terry Davis
• Coding FPS game engine
• Coffe with Brian Kernighans
• Type Inference in GO
• The AMAZING History of Computers, Programming, and Coding
• History of Programming Languages.(Documentary 2024)
• The Computer That Runs The World

Blogs

• Sighack - Sighack's explorations with GenArt.
• The Coding Train - I consider him as the godfather of creative coding content.
• GuerrillaCG - an old hidden gym on Computer Graphics topics.
• Bites n Bits - I really enjoy his vibes, posts cool retro related topics.
• Junkiyoshi - His generative art always reminds me how beautiful simple things could be.
• Shoya Kajita - Amazing WebGL experiments

Articles

• Who is the real first computer programmer
• The evolution of programming languages

Other

• Marinally Clever Robots - Developing robots; what I'm interested in is their pen plotter open sourced software, it has a varaity of themes and image converter; it's fun to study their image manipulation techniques.
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
• 100 days of visualizing algorithms
• Online vector field visulizer