The big idea in this book is to lay out the rules that tell a computer how to take 3D shapes and lights and create a picture-one that would pass for a photograph of that scene if it existed. So our driving problem is the simulation of Nature’s illumination of a scene, the capturing of that illumination on film, and its presentation to an observer.
In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you’ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required.
Demonstrating student learning may seem like a simple task, but reflection reveals that it is a complex challenge requiring educators to use specific knowledge and skills. Standards-based reform has many curricular and instructional prerequisites.
Genetic programming (GP) is a collection of evolutionary computation techniques that allow computers to solve problems automatically. Since its inception twenty years ago, GP has been used to solve a wide range of practical problems, producing a number of human-competitive results and even patentable new inventions.
This document is an introduction to ML programming, specifically for the Objective Caml (OCaml) programming language from INRIA. OCaml is a dialect of the ML (Meta-Language) family of languages, which derive from the Classic ML language designed by Robin Milner in 1975 for the LCF (Logic of Computable Functions) theorem prover.
This is a book for the computationalist, whether a working programmer or anyone interested in methods of computation. The focus is on material that does not usually appear in textbooks on algorithms.
There are a lot of factors which will influence in your next book, or when and how you’ll be reading it. Would you be taking any action and making some time in between your busy daily schedule to read? In this video, we’ll cover 10 tips and tricks on how you can read more and continue doing so to reach your reading target and read even more in the coming future, at your own comfortable pace. Don’t worry, just find that one book which catches your attention – call it love-to-read-at-first-sight and start reading, and you won’t stop reading.