Live coding: a user's manual is out this week, published...

Live coding: a user's manual is out this week, published open access by MIT Press. I have my copy already, after many years it's real!

I just put up a placeholder website, and will upload the pdf, epub and mobi ebook files there on Tuesday, maybe making a web version. It'd be interesting if people started contributing edits, adding extra chapters etc..

https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/

Book cover for
LIVE CODING: a user's manual, by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson

With text 'live coding' in the background manipulated into a repeating pattern. The code for generating this pattern is also shown in a box, partially obscured by my thumb, saying something like:

function newPattern () {
var type = document.querySelectorAll('path'), i; currentScale = 1;
currentTime = setInterval( function() {
for (i = 0; i < type.length; ++i) ( type[i].style.transform='scale('+ currentScale +)'; currentScale = Math.random() * 2;
}
}

Like 20 Nov 2022 at 16:40 | Open on post.lurk.org

3 comments

Luka Prinčič

@yaxu "This book is open access, and will be freely available for download from this website in PDF, Mobi and Epub, from its formal publication date on 22nd November 2023."

20 Nov 2022 at 16:44 | Open on sonomu.club

Alex McLean

@luka Oops, fixed! (will take a minute for the website to regenerate itself)

20 Nov 2022 at 16:46 | Open on post.lurk.org

Kevin Cunningham (dolearning)

@yaxu excited to read this. Was chatting to a new friend last week who is a live coding performer who was really inspiring.

Also, did some collaborative live coding at a conference last week also - so much fun.

20 Nov 2022 at 16:47 | Open on hachyderm.io

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