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What is computational media?
- What is programming?
- How can I apply programming to _____________?
- As a ____________, why would I want or need to write software?
- Example projects.
Programming language discussion
- General discussion of programming languages
- History of creative coding frameworks
  - Processing and p5.js (and what's processing.js?): What is p5.js video
  - openframeworks, cinder
  - max/msp dataflow programming
  - How does arduino fit in?
p5.js in the context of the browser
- Landscape of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Other JS frameworks
- Server-side vs. client-side
- What is the difference between p5 and JavaScript?
Participating in an open-source community
- What are git and github?
- When should you post to a forum vs. file a github issue?
- Who makes these things?
- p5.js working group mailing list
Getting started, your first program
- Download Examples
- Drawing with numbers: video tutorial
- Shape and color functions: video tutorial
- setup() and draw()
- Downloading p5.js
- Start by downloading the p5.js editor.
- p5.js reference
Uploading your sketch
<a id="optional-1">Optional viewing / reading:</a>
- Casey Reas Eyeo 2012 talk on Chance Operations
- Introductory p5.js videos
- FORM+CODE: Introduction and What is Code?
- As We May Think, Vannevar Bush
- Long Live the Web, Tim Berners-Lee

2 -- Animation

Program flow (what's a function?)
- Setup, draw, and other events
- Variation: mouseX and mouseY
- video tutorial
More about variables
- make your own variables (numbers and strings), video tutorial
- JS objects (variables inside variables), video tutorial
random(), video tutorial
map(), video tutorial
Simple loading and displaying image
Download all examples

3 -- Interaction

Conditional Statements
- Boolean expressions
- if statement
- relational operators
- video tutorial
- Case study, bouncing ball: video tutorial
- else, else if, and, or video tutorial
- buttons, rollovers, switches video tutorial
Loops (while and for)
- while and for video tutorial
- nested loops video tutorial
Download all examples

4 -- Functions: the basics

Download Examples
Calling vs. defining
Modularity: video
Arguments and parameters
Re-usability: video
Return types: video
Recursion
Functions inside objects: video
Optional Readings:
- Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
Homework: TBA (but something like use a function to draw a design different ways, multiple times. Make a previous sketch modular.)

5 -- Objects and Arrays

download examples
Review object literals:
- properties - name/value pairs
- functions inside objects
- this keyword
What is an array? video tutorial 6.1
- declaring, intializing
- numeric indices
- arrays and for loops: video tutorial 6.2
- length property
An array of objects! video tutorial 6.3
Constructor function! video tutorial 6.4
Adding and deleting from an array, push() and splice() video tutorial. 6.5, video tutorial 6.8
Multiple JS files video tutorial 6.6
Clicking on objects video tutorial 6.7
Checking objects intersecting with other objects video tutorial 6.9, video tutorial 6.10
loading images for objects video tutorial 6.11

6 -- Synthesis -- October 2nd, 11am - 2pm

Meet in the ITP Lounge
Bring your Arduino
All details here
Serial input with a callback workshop
"One button experience" exercise

7 -- DOM: events and callback function

Download all examples
Review events -- mousePressed, keyPressed
Tutorial: Beyond the Canvas, using p5.dom
Tutorial: Intro to HTML/CSS basics
DOM elements - p5.dom reference
- createP()
- createButton()
- createSlider()
Callbacks
- button.mousePressed(callback);
style() -- low key intro to CSS
CSS Reference

8 -- Data

Download all examples
Tutorial: loading external data with p5.js
Tutorial: more about data and APIs
JSON and APIs (and more on callbacks!)
Word Counting
Tabular data
Optional Reading:
- Art and the API, Jer Thorp
- The Anxieties of Big Data, Kate Crawford

9 -- Video and Sound

Download all examples
p5.sound reference
Video/capture: p5.MediaElement reference
Sound
Live capture
Movie playback
Video Assignment

10 -- Mobile

Download all examples
Workflow and process, get a previous sketch running on a device
Touch interaction
Sensors
More mobile examples from Jia
p5 mobile workflows by Jia
Using the viewport meta tag to control layout on mobile browsers
Hammer.js
Homework: Prepare a final project proposal. See you section's wiki.

11 -- Other Topics + Final Project Proposals

See your individual section's proposal schedule on your wiki
Possible topics
- more on pixels
- more on data
- setTimeout, setInterval
- WebGL - tutorial

12 -- Beyond p5.js + Final Project Proposals

See your individual section's proposal schedule on your wiki
Life beyond p5.js
- Take ICM into the spring semester courses
- Other JS libraries?
- Coding outside the p5 IDE? (local server tutorial)
- local server tutorial
- More HTML/CSS
- What is server side programming for?
- Processing
- Open source
  - How do artists make and adapt tools for themselves and their communities, like Processing, p5.js, openFrameworks, etc?
- How do you get involved with this?

13 -- One on one speed user testing / feedback

This week you will "user test" your project with fellow classmates. You must have some implementation that you can test completed by this time. User testing can mean different things for different projects. For a game, it can mean that the user tries to play it. For an art piece, it could mean showing it to a classmate and asking for them to say what they think it is about or how it made them feel. We'll show projects in a "one on one" / round robin / speed dating-style session. 5 minutes then switch. You cannot not explain your project, just show and let the user try it and give you feedback. Then you can answer questions. User testing schedule will be provided on a wiki.

14 -- Final Project Presentations

Please add your link to your final project documentation on your section's wiki.

Policies

##Evaluation

Grades will be determined according to the following breakdown:

Regular Assignments 40%
Participation and Attendance 40%
Final Project 20%

Please see ITP's statement on Pass/Fail which states that a "Pass" is equivalent to an "A" or a "B" while anything less would be considered a "Fail".

We will have weekly assignments that are relevant to material from the previous class. These assignments are required and you should be prepared to show/talk about them in class. It is expected that everyone in the class will create and maintain a blog for their assignments.

Attendance is mandatory. Please inform your teacher via email if you are going to miss a class. Two unexcused absences is cause for failing the class. (An unexcused lateness of 10 minutes or more is equivalent to 1/2 an absence.)

This class will be participatory, you are expected to participate in discussions and give feedback to other students both in class and participate with their projects. This (along with attendance) is 40% of your grade.

Class will culminate with final projects. You are expected to push your abilities to produce something that utilizes what you have learned in the class that is useful in some manner to yourself or the world. This will comprise 20% of your grade.

Mantras By James

"Practice is the best of all instructors." - computation requires practice
"An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage." - look to your classmates for help too
"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." - sometimes you need to take a leap of faith
"When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all." - encourage students with similar ideas
"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken." - don't get too stressed out
All of these are from Plubius Syrus.(42 B.C.)

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Intro to Computational Media (Fall 2015)

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Syllabus

1 -- Introduction and Drawing