The Nature of Code

I accidentally stumbled on Daniel Shiffman's "The Nature of Code" online book. It is the ideal programming 102 book - something interesting to fool around with once you've learned the first few essentials of coding.

The goal of this book is simple. We want to take a look at something that naturally occurs in our physical world, then determine how we can write code to simulate that occurrence.

I love this real-world slant. The applications cover physics, biology, agent-based modeling, automata, neural networks etc.

Give it a look.