The book

So I know you folks are using Python for the software to convert the images, and I understand you are using Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python, A Multimedia Approach (link) as a textbook of sorts to learn the language. I’m curious to know from each of you (students, that is), what you think about the text.

Next semester, I’m teaching a honors course called Creative Computing. This is basically a computing (programming?) course for non-majors, but more importantly, honors non-majors. I think I want to introduce them to programming, and I want to do some cool things like image and audio manipulation. (I think video is in there too…) Hopefully this will intrigue the students. It’s certainly better than just our normal CS1 (that’s 1st semester CS programming) course in Java, which they can take at anytime.

So you like the text? What don’t you like? Are you enjoying working with Python to manipulate images? Spill the beans, please!