ANN: Python Multimedia Computing book and software

[Doug Holton]

This book is due to be published any day now:
"Introduction to computing and programming with Python: A Multimedia 
Approach" by Mark Guzdial, a CS professor at Georgia Tech.

It uses the Jython Environment for Students (JES).  It is completely 
free and open source.  You can use it for example to work with and 
manipulate images or sounds.

A similar book is available in preview form: "Introduction to Media 
Computation: A Multimedia Cookbook in Python".

See this page for info on the books, the software, course notes, 
research papers, and more info: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan