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Making Music with Computers (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing),Used
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Teach Your Students How to Use Computing to Explore Powerful and Creative IdeasIn the twentyfirst century, computers have become indispensable in music making, distribution, performance, and consumption. Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python 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.The book provides an introduction to creative software development in the Python programming language. It uses innovative musiccreation activities to illustrate introductory computer programming concepts, including data types, algorithms, operators, iteration, lists, functions, and classes. The authors also cover GUIs, eventdriven programming, big data, sonification, MIDI programming, clientserver programming, recursion, fractals, and complex system dynamics.Requiring 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 selfstudy, the book shows musicians and digital music enthusiasts how to write music software and create algorithmic music compositions.Web ResourceA 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 crossplatform programming tools. The website also offers example course and associated media resources.
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