Perevalov Denis - OpenFrameworks essentials: create stunning, interactive openFrameworks-based applications with this fast-paced guide

A profession is neither a bronze molding nor a stone monument but a living and evolving form. A coder's, a programmer's, and an interactive project engineer's profession has been living until now in the depth of the office ocean among the unicellular executors of other people's plans and among the irresolute and inert workers unable to motivate themselves, to broaden the range of instruments, technologies, and wisheswishes to exceed the environment of hired workers and step into the world of high professional competition belonging to men of businessmen of solution finding.

For professionals, evolution is to consider that they are beginners again. Taking a manual and evening by evening, at home by the lamplight forging their new armor, their strong professional exoskeleton, to exceed habitual tasks allowing them to step out of an ocean of many and onto the beach of singularities where the experience of the past and the ambitions of the future change the very idea of workspace, competences, and hierarchies.

You can be an experienced coder having worked at different sites and application for years, but you have to go to the bottom studying again, doing tests and exercises, correcting amateur mistakes, getting a new experience, and changing your idea about what can be done by yourself, by your intellect, your vision, and your imagination. Changes inspire as do understanding, knowledge, and experience. A book that makes you sink down to the bottom, consuming several evenings or a couple of weeks, will eventually help you to understand a lot.

Although it is the basics, they are assembled intentionally into a compact, handy structure of informational portions, maybe not so exquisitely designed but definitely rich in nutritious and simple practical ways. This book is going to rest on the shelf after you, led by the success of consecutive learning, have performed a series of simple works based on the examples, gradually and consciously going ashore onto a new professional environment. You will enter the era of probably the most active technological educationself-education by means of hundreds of available sources.

The authors of this book are professionals tired of putting on knowledge as a clumsy sea lion puts on fat. Knowledge should constantly attract new ideas, and a book is probably the best way to share it. This book is not a step but a jump. A sea lion stepped ashore out of the thick, powerful knowledge clot, stiff on the land of theoretical teaching methods and surprisingly flexible in its natural environment of project development. We witness the evolution into methodologists, teachers, and preachers of technologies.

We have stepped into the era of instant evolution of knowledge, habits, and experience, into a period of high-speed reforging and assembly of new details and completely unique professional habits. Programming inspires advertisers and artists. Mobile applications become the channels for spreading marketing and cultural novelties. Behind the glossy interface design, there are people following the lines, thinking in compact code constructions, and joining and optimizing data exchange in new sequences, where, as a result, persons with a smartphone in their hands get access to a cosmic number of new impressions.

Now, we can all enroll for some courses, enter online universities, and order tens of books and manuals. We live in the melting pot of innovation history, and the lack of information is no excuse for the lack of talent. People began sharing their knowledge easily and understanding different questions, the answers to which are not worth publishing. Practical professional manuals are a separate, widely spread genrelittered, popular, and diverse.

This book appeared with the knowledge of similar books' faults. It was structured to be light but available, keeping the link to the authors' experiences and helping you to independently develop the basic principles of openFrameworks for any platform and projecting task. You will feel your personal evolution go on with every page, chapter, and every performed prototype.