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24 alternatives to The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman

Simulating Natural Systems with JavaScript

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Learn to program computer simulations of natural systems

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Transform boring lines of code into natural English

    2021 · its alternatives →

  3. 3TJ
  4. 4LA

    2019 · learnjavascript.online · its alternatives →

  5. 5JB

    2016 · exploringjs.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6CC

    2013 · blog.codeclimate.com · its alternatives →

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    2018 · jshandbook.com · its alternatives →

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    "The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Discover the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    The first open and extensible platform for static analysis

    2015 · its alternatives →

  15. 15NM

    This is an introduction to the "Nature" project: https://nature-lang.org/docs/getting-started/meet-nature I am the author of the Nature language, and today I have released the 0.4.0-beta version. For detailed updates, please see https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/release-notes Now, Nature can easily interact with C language. It is anticipated that in about six months, Nature will release a version available to the community. By then, there will be stable syntax API, a complete standard library, and support for development tools. Moreover,…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I started writing this book 10 years ago in JavaScript, got through a few chapters (asymptotic notation, basic techniques, start of sorting), and then abandoned it. Recently I picked it back up, converted everything to TypeScript, and used AI (Zenflow [1] + Claude Opus 4.6) to complete the remaining chapters. I provided the structure, direction, and initial chapters; the AI generated the bulk of the remaining content under a spec-driven workflow. The book covers roughly a first 1-2 year CS curriculum: sorting, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, trees, heaps, hash tables, and more. All…

    Mar 2026 · amoilanen.github.io · its alternatives →

  20. 20TM

    I recently published a book called “The Magic of Code” which is about the delights of the computational world, examining computing as a kind of “humanistic liberal art” that connects to so many topics, from art and biology to philosophy and language. The link I’ve shared is to a page on my book’s website where you can download a pdf of the introduction, to give HN readers a taste of what is inside. Right now there is so much worry and concern around technology that I feel like some people—though not the folks here—have forgotten how much fun that code and computation can also be. So I wanted…

    2025 · themagicofcode.com · its alternatives →

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    Practice coding by typing real and open source code project

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Scientific computation for JavaScript

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Query programming languages using natural language!

    2020 · its alternatives →

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