Schedule
CS 145: Images and Imagination, Spring 2014

The schedule below is tentative and may be subject to change. Links will appear at time of the schedule/assignment dates. Text: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2, by Ira Greenberg, Dianna Xu, and Deepak Kumar

Week		Topic	Readings	Assignment	Comments
1	Jan 13/15/17	Course Overview and Intro to Processing & Graphics	Text: Chps 1-2, Online: Getting Started, Coordinate System and Shapes, Color, Curves, HTML Intro	Lab 1: Introduction to Processing: Coordinate Systems and Shapes
2	Jan 20/22/24	Variables, Interaction, functions, simple transformations	Text: Chp 3, up to p72 - on functions See Resource listed in lab Online: Transformations	Lab 2: Repetition and Looping	No lab Monday afternoon due to MLK events. Important Date: Fri, Jan 24: Add/Drop Deadline for Full and First-half semester courses.
3	Jan 27/29/31	Loops, Conditionals, random numbers	Chp 2, p. 72-75 (conditionals), Chp 3, p 88-92 (loops)	Lab 2: Repetition and Looping (cont)
4	Feb 3/5/7	Conditionals, Exam 1 - Also see Study Page Exam postponed due to snow.	Review	begin Lab 3: Frieze patterns
5	Feb 10/12/14	Exam 1 - Monday! More with functions (parameters and return values), More transformations (matrix stack)	Chp 4, pp 11 (return values) See bookresources on gorr-classes	Lab 3: Frieze patterns (cont)
6	Feb 17/19/21	Transformations (cont)	Chp 4, pp 11, Online: Transformations	Lab 3: Frieze patterns	Important Date: Fri, Feb 21: CR/NC Deadline for Full semester courses
7	Feb 24/26/28	Trigonometry	Chp 3, pp 81-83, Online: Trig Primer	Lab 4: Making Waves and Circles
8	Mar 3/5/7	Arrays	Chp 5, pp 150-157 See bookresources on gorr-classes: GS_Arrays.pdf Online: 2D Arrays	Lab 5: Bouncing Balls
9	Mar 10/12/14	Begin: Recursion and Turtle Graphics	Review
10	Mar 17/19/21	Exam 2 (Monday) Continue: Recursion and Turtle Graphics	Chp 8	Lab 6: Turtle Graphics	Important Dates: Fri, Mar 21: Withdrawal Deadline for Full semester courses.
	Mar 24-28	Spring Break
11	Mar 31,Apr 2/4	Recursion (cont)	Chp 8 (cont)	Lab 6: Turtle Graphics
12	Apr 7/9/11	Complex Numbers	See class and lab notes.	Lab 7: Complex Transformations
13	Apr 14/16/18	Fractals	See class and lab notes.	Lab 8: Mandelbrot Set	Wed: SSRD - no classes!
14	Apr 21/23/25	Fractals (cont)	See class and lab notes.	Lab 8: Mandelbrot Set (cont)
15	Apr 28	Review
	Final Exam will be Tues, May 6, 9-11am

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