0.2 What will readers learn from this book?

By the end of this book, you should understand:

• How to program a computer to efficiently store, synthesize, and process musical sound.

• The foundational principles of sampling, digital signal processing, and the frequency domain that should transfer readily to many other areas of computing.

• Exposure to a breadth of specific computer music topics (sampling, physical modeling, music AI, etc.) that build on these foundational principles.