An innovative introduction to Python and its audio-visual capabilities for beginning programmers, this book is also a resource for expert programmers and of interest to anyone interested in music. It is structured around four extensible, audio-visual projects on music and sound. Beginners will appreciate the 'need to know' basis of the presentation of Python for each project, whilst expert programmers will be able to go straight to the project code, run it and then extend as they see fit. Musically-interested readers will enjoy the historical and theoretical material at the beginning of each project, and may even be tempted to try some coding. 

All the projects are self-contained but can be extended to incorporate aspects of the others making the book very suitable for self-study as well as an excellent introductory textbook to this exciting area of computer science.