Media Computation
CMPSC 195 Spring 2012

Diving in.

Big Picture

Getting into Processing.

“To Do”

UPDATE: If you want a short bit of rally driving in English, you might check out this video instead. Again, you don’t need more than a minute of the video to get the point.

The Plan

     
Activity Time Description
Quiz 10 min Our first “prep quiz.”
Eval 30 min Answer the quiz questions together.
Lab Book 20 min Review lab books w/ partners.
Hands On #1 30 min Ripping off Mondrian, Part I
Discuss 20 min Problems, solutions.
Break 5 min Stretch!
Hands On #2 30 min Ripping off Mondrian, Part II
Show & Tell 30 min Art Show
Prof Yak #1 20 min What’s comes next?
     

Quiz

A short quiz over chapters one, two, and the pair programming video.

Eval

We’ll swap quizzes, and evaluate them. That way, we get instant gratification and learn from our mistakes.

Lab Book

The lab book is an important part of your work in this class.

  • When you make mistakes in your code, you should write down what was wrong, and how you fixed it.
  • When you do something awesome, you should make note of how you did it.
  • When you have an image or other output that you think is worth noting, save it by printing it into your notebook.

We’ll take a few minutes to talk about lab books in this class and go through it with your partner.

BONUS: GET LOGGED IN

Before we can do anything in class, we need to get logged in. And, while we’re at it, you should change your password.

Hands On #1

Break into pairs and dive into our first lab.

Discuss

We’ll take a few minutes to catalog the challenges you’ve run into so far, as well as the solutions you came up with. This will give all of us a chance to learn from each-other’s explorations.

Break

Seventh inning stretch!

Hands On #2

We’ll continue our exploration of Processing.

Show & Tell

Why do visual work if you can’t share what you’ve done with others? We’ll take some time to share our work and highlight the one or two things that surprised you most in doing it.

Prof Yak #1

I’ll talk about what we’re doing Thursday.