CS141: Topics for Jan 13, 15, & 17, 2014

• Administrative Details:

  • First Day Quiz (Anonymous!!)
  • Lab access.
  • Course structure and expectations
  • This course counts towards
    • The QA* General Education Requirement
    • The Arts, Technology and Multimedia minor.
  • Shared network drive. See links page.

• Lab 1: Introduction to Processing

• What is this class about? (pdf version)

• Programming Elements

  • Getting Started with Processing
  • Hello Processing - Hour of Code
  • Defining the Canvas/Window
  • Drawing shapes and drawing properties, built-in functions. See reference page
  • Expressions (value) vs Statements (complete sentences, end with semi-colon)
  • Color
    • Color On the Computer
    • Color in Processing.
    • And what are these funny looking numbers of the form #AF24C6 ?
  • Generating an image using save()
  • Generating Javascript for a webpage.
  • Making a very simple web page:
    • Click here to look at the page
    • Here is the code.

• Other Links

  • What is an an algorithm? In the logician's voice
  • Making an Origami Crane
  • Origami on a computer
    • TED Talk: Robert Lang folds way-new origami
    • Lang's program for making origami: Treemaker

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