{"product_id":"making-music-with-computers","title":"Making Music with Computers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeach Your Students How to Use Computing to Explore Powerful and Creative Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the twenty-first century, computers have become indispensable in music making, distribution, performance, and consumption. \u003cstrong\u003eMaking Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces important concepts and skills necessary to generate music with computers. It interweaves computing pedagogy with musical concepts and creative activities, showing students how to integrate the creativity and design of the arts with the mathematical rigor and formality of computer science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book provides an introduction to creative software development in the Python programming language. It uses innovative music-creation activities to illustrate introductory computer programming concepts, including data types, algorithms, operators, iteration, lists, functions, and classes. The authors also cover GUIs, event-driven programming, big data, sonification, MIDI programming, client–server programming, recursion, fractals, and complex system dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRequiring minimal musical or programming experience, the text is designed for courses in introductory computer science and computing in the arts. It helps students learn computer programming in a creative context and understand how to build computer music applications. Also suitable for self-study, the book shows musicians and digital music enthusiasts how to write music software and create algorithmic music compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeb Resource\u003c\/em\u003eA supplementary website (http:\/\/jythonMusic.org) provides a music library and other software resources used in the text. The music library is an extension of the jMusic library and incorporates other cross-platform programming tools. The website also offers example course and associated media resources.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246073827672,"sku":"9781439867914","price":64.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781439867914.jpg?v=1777777274","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-music-with-computers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}