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1.1 What is a Vector? - The Nature of Code

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Welcome to Nature of Code Chapter 1: Vectors! What is a vector? How do they work in p5.js? These questions will all be answered in this first section of this series on p5.Vector. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/tracks/the-nature-of-code-2/noc/1-vectors/1-what-is-a-vector 🚀 Watch this video ad-free on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/the-coding-train-yt-1-1-what-is-a-vector-the-nature-of-code 🕹️ p5.js Web Editor Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/sketches/JmEToUfk 🎥 Previous video: https://youtu.be/y7sgcFhk6ZM?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZV4yEcW3uDwOgGXKUUsPOM 🎥 Next video: https://youtu.be/Rob0pbE7kks?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZV4yEcW3uDwOgGXKUUsPOM 🎥 All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZV4yEcW3uDwOgGXKUUsPOM References: 🔗 The Nature of Code Vectors: https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-1-vectors/ Videos: 🎥 Coding Challenge 52 - Random Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__fEY1xanY 🎥 Classes in JavaScript with ES6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-HGdc8L-7w Timestamps: 0:00 Welcome to Chapter 1! 1:08 Scalars have magnitude 2:09 Vectors have magnitude and direction 3:40 Thinking of (x,y) as a vector 9:03 createVector() 9:34 Add vectors to the random walker code 11:35 Create a Walker object 14:00 Next up: start adding the foundation for a physics engine Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound 🚂 Website: http://thecodingtrain.com/ 👾 Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/passenger-showcase-guide 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Suggestion-Box 💡 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain 💬 Discord: https://thecodingtrain.com/discord ✪ Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/codingtrain 💖 Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join 🛒 Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain 🖋️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodingtrain 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.coding.train/ 🎥 Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Intro to Programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA 🔗 p5.js: https://p5js.org 🔗 p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ 🔗 Processing: https://processing.org 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: https://github.com/CodingTrain/thecodingtrain.com/issues/new #forbeginners #javascript #p5js

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This dot, this dot.", 'start': 731.549, 'duration': 9.309}, {'end': 750.494, 'text': 'Now that I have the position vector as part of the walker class, I need to refer to the position as this dot position,', 'start': 744.813, 'duration': 5.681}, {'end': 753.535, 'text': 'which at some point is going to create some awkward looking, longer, winded code.', 'start': 750.494, 'duration': 3.041}], 'summary': 'Creating a function to bring code into walker.js and refer to position as this dot position.', 'duration': 21.986, 'max_score': 731.549, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/bKEaK7WNLzM/pics/bKEaK7WNLzM731549.jpg'}, {'end': 800.42, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 768.669, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 770.67, 'text': 'And now I have my Walker class complete.', 'start': 768.669, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 773.13, 'text': 'The constructor creates a position vector.', 'start': 771.17, 'duration': 1.96}, {'end': 775.891, 'text': 'The update function updates the x and y position.', 'start': 773.35, 'duration': 2.541}, {'end': 778.212, 'text': 'And the show function draws the position.', 'start': 776.171, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 782.513, 'text': "Back into Sketch, I'm going to make the variable now called Walker.", 'start': 778.832, 'duration': 3.681}, {'end': 789.075, 'text': 'In setup, call the constructor with an initial position of 200, 200.', 'start': 784.714, 'duration': 4.361}, {'end': 789.696, 'text': 'And then in draw, update.', 'start': 789.075, 'duration': 0.621}, {'end': 800.42, 'text': 'And I think I forgot the stroke and all of that as part of the show function.', 'start': 796.397, 'duration': 4.023}], 'summary': 'Walker class is complete with constructor, update, and show functions for position vector.', 'duration': 31.751, 'max_score': 768.669, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/bKEaK7WNLzM/pics/bKEaK7WNLzM768669.jpg'}, {'end': 827.894, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 796.397, 'weight': 0.727, 'content': [{'end': 800.42, 'text': 'And I think I forgot the stroke and all of that as part of the show function.', 'start': 796.397, 'duration': 4.023}, {'end': 804.263, 'text': 'Put that back in.', 'start': 800.44, 'duration': 3.823}, {'end': 810.667, 'text': 'And now, oops, what do I have wrong? Oh, I forgot to reference walker.js in index.html.', 'start': 804.943, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 814.366, 'text': 'And there we go.', 'start': 813.786, 'duration': 0.58}, {'end': 818.188, 'text': 'I have exactly the same random walker.', 'start': 814.767, 'duration': 3.421}, {'end': 827.894, 'text': 'So this brings me to the end of this first video about what is a vector and using p5 vector in your code, in your JavaScript code in p5.js.', 'start': 818.429, 'duration': 9.465}], 'summary': 'The transcript discusses adding strokes and references to code, resulting in the creation of a random walker using p5.js.', 'duration': 31.497, 'max_score': 796.397, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/bKEaK7WNLzM/pics/bKEaK7WNLzM796397.jpg'}, {'end': 919.811, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 877.986, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 879.927, 'text': "And I've heard about this thing called a force.", 'start': 877.986, 'duration': 1.941}, {'end': 887.651, 'text': "Maybe there's something like Newton's laws and physics and motion and things that are at rest and they stay at rest and all that stuff.", 'start': 881.328, 'duration': 6.323}, {'end': 895.594, 'text': "Could I somehow take this concept of a force? Maybe you've heard of this equation, force equals mass times acceleration.", 'start': 888.091, 'duration': 7.503}, {'end': 900.736, 'text': 'Could that play a role in how acceleration is calculated?', 'start': 896.154, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 903.137, 'text': 'which changes velocity, which changes position?', 'start': 900.736, 'duration': 2.401}, {'end': 906.559, 'text': 'And so these are the foundational elements of a physics engine.', 'start': 903.397, 'duration': 3.162}, {'end': 915.247, 'text': 'And I am going to build all of those slowly bit by bit while talking about different mathematical operations with vectors.', 'start': 907.519, 'duration': 7.728}, {'end': 919.811, 'text': "And that's what you'll see in the next few videos and the next few videos all throughout chapter one and chapter two.", 'start': 915.487, 'duration': 4.324}], 'summary': "Exploring the concept of force, newton's laws, and physics in building a physics engine using the equation force equals mass times 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