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Table of Contents:
Introduction xi About This Book xi Foolish Assumptions xii Icons Used in This Book xii Where to Go from Here xii Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java and Processing 1 Getting Started with Processing 2 Save and Reopen Processing Programs 9 Chapter 2: Writing Your First Program 13 Getting to Know the Canvas 14 Calling Methods in Java 21 Creating Variables 23 Chapter 3: Drawing with Code 25 Drawing a Triangle 26 Drawing a Rectangle 30 Drawing a Quadrilateral 32 Drawing an Ellipse 34 Drawing an Arc 36 Creating a Unique Drawing 38 Chapter 4: Adding Color to the Canvas 39 Adding Color to Your Canvas 40 Learning about RGB Values 43 Adding Color to Shapes 45 Chapter 5: Coding Your First Animation 51 Learning about Methods 52 Writing Your First Two Methods 54 Writing Your First Two Original Methods 57 Adding Parameters to Your Method 63 Chapter 6: Allowing User Interaction 67 Moving with the Mouse 68 Interacting with Mouse Clicks 72 Making a Horizontal Slider 74 Working with Conditional Statements 75 Moving Shapes with the Keyboard 79 Chapter 7: Coding Your First Game 85 Creating a Scene 86 Adding a Character to Your Game 90 Adding Movement to Your Videogame 96 Updating the Background 99 Adding Gravity to Your Videogame 101 Making Lava Pits 104 Chapter 8: Making Artificial Intelligence 111 Adding an Enemy to Your Videogame 112 Making the Enemy Move 114 Creating Your Own Java Class 116 Creating a Second Java Class 123 Adding Health to Your Character 128 Giving Your Enemies Collision Detection 131 Chapter 9: Planning Your Ninja Bird Game 135 Making Sense of the Flappy Bird Code 138 Outlining Your Ninja Bird 140 Designing Your Java Classes 141 Chapter 10: Planning Your Ninja Bird Methods 147 Designing Your Setup Method 148 Designing Your Draw Method 151 Designing Your Collision Methods 156 Adding Helper Methods 159 Chapter 11: Coding the Ninja Bird Basics 165 Converting Comments to Code 166 Chapter 12: Coding the Final Ninja Bird Code 191 Adding Randomness to Your Pipes 192 Detecting Collision 194 Keeping Score in Your Game 201 Cleaning Up the Code 208