Schedule
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Dates |
Topics |
Assignments (due) |
Textbook | Code |
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Week 1 Jan 9th
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Introduction Student and instructor introductions The Processing environment
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Chapter 1 | |
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Week 2 Jan 16thJan 18th
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First Steps Drawing, Animation and Interaction
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Class Website and Icon |
Chapter 2-3 | zip online |
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Week 3 Jan 23rdJan 25th
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Building blocks Variables and Conditionals
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Chapters 4 and 5 | zip online |
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Week 4 Jan 30thFeb 1st
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Building blocks Loops |
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Chapter 6 | zip online |
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Week 5 Feb 6th
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Program Organization Loops, Functions, intro to Objects |
Chapter 7, Chapter 8 | zip online |
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Week 6 Feb 13thFeb 15th |
Structures Creating objects |
Chapter 8 | ||
| Feb 20th Feb 22nd
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Reading week |
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Lesson 1-3 (review) | |
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Week 7 Feb 27th
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Arrays Keeping track of lists |
Chapter 9 | ||
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Week 8 Mar 5th
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Arrays, continued
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Chapter 9 | |
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Week 9 Mar 12th
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Review From the beginning.
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Reading II: Essay
for Creative Code |
Chapters 1 to 9 | |
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Week 10 Mar 19th |
Midterm Exam |
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Week 11 Mar 26th
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Putting it all together |
Chapters 10, 11, 17 (parts) | ||
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Week 12 April 2ndApril 4th
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Advanced drawing Vertices, curves, 3D drawing
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PS 3: Lists and Objects |
Chapter 14 (parts) | |
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Week 13 April 9thApril 11th
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The Outside World External libraries, sound |
Chapter 12, 20 (parts) | ||
| Exam Period |
Final project presentations |
Final project |