Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications with JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code With the Web Audio API! William Turner and Steve Leonard showcase the basics of JavaScript language programing so that readers can learn how to build browser based audio applications, such as music synthesizers and drum machines. The companion website offers further opportunity for growth.Web Audio API instruction includes oscillators, audio file loading and playback, basic audio manipulation, panning and time. This book encompasses all of the basic features of JavaScript with aspects of the Web Audio API to heighten the capability of any browser.

Key Features

• Uses the readers existing knowledge of audio technology to facilitate learning how to program using JavaScript. The teaching will be done through a series of annotated examples and explanations.
• Downloadable code examples and links to additional reference material included on the books companion website.
• This book makes learning programming more approachable to nonprofessional programmers
• The context of teaching JavaScript for the creative audio community in this manner does not exist anywhere else in the market and uses example-based teaching

About the Author

William Turner is a technical trainer with over 13 years of experience. He currently operates a boutique web development and training company at helpknow.com.

Steve Leonard is a technical writer for Juniper Networks and developed some of the initial documentation for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series of switches among other products. He now writes the internal programmer guide for developers of Juniper’s next-generation operating system and is responsible for the network management documentation for end users of that new OS.