Schedule
CS 145: Images and Imagination, Fall 2010


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The schedule below is tentative and may be subject to changes.
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Text: Getting Started with Processing, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry.
Week
Topic
Readings
Assignment
Comments
1
Aug 31
Course Overview and Intro to Processing & Graphics Text: Chps 1-3, Online: Coordinate System and Shapes, Color Lab 1: Introduction to Processing (due Sept 8, Pass/Fail)  
2
Sept 7
Variables, Loops, Conditionals Text: Chps 4-5, Appendices A-C Lab 2: Repetition, Looping, and Making Choices (due Sept 15, Graded)  
3
Sept 14
Functions, Movement and Interaction  Text: Chps 7 (up to p. 104) and 8 Lab 3: Functions and Animation (due Sept 22, Pass/Fail)  
4
Sept 21
Images and Text  Text: Chp 6 Lab 4: Images and Text (due Oct 4, 9am, Pass/Fail)  
5
Sept 28
Exam 1 on Sept 30 Text: review assigned readings Lab 4 (cont)  
6
Oct 5
Sound, Interaction, and 1D Arrays Text: Chap 10 (up to p. 147), Online: Minim Sound Library Lab 5: Sound and Response (due Mon, Oct 18, Graded) Tue: Meet with musicians
Fri/Sat - Prof Orr away at a conference.
7
Oct 12
Sounds (cont) Text: none Lab 5: Sound and Response (cont)  
8
Oct 19
Transformations, Frieze Patterns and Hierarchical Structures Text: finish Chp 7 Lab 6: Transformations and Frieze Patterns ( due Wed, Oct 27, Graded) Fri - Mid-semester day
9
Oct 26
2D Arrays and Image Filters Text: finish Chp 10, and Online: Images and Pixels Lab 7: Image Filters (Nov 8, Pass/Fail)  
10
Nov 2
Image Filters (cont) Text: none Lab 7: Image Filters (cont) (Nov 8, Pass/Fail)  
11
Nov 9
Exam 2 Text: review assigned readings No new lab assigned  
12
Nov 16
Trig and Complex Numbers Text: none, Online: Trigonometry Lab 8: Trig, Complex Numbers, and the Mandelbrot Set (POSTPONED: due Nov 30, 9am, Pass/Fail)  
13
Nov 23
Fractals Text: none Lab 9: Creative Lab (part 1 due Nov 30, Pass/Fail) Thanksgiving - no class Thursday
14
Nov 30
Misc  Text: beginning of Chp 11 Lab 9: Creative Lab (part 2 due Dec 7/9, Graded)  
15
Dec 7
Work on Lab 9, Review for final. Text: none Lab 9 (cont) classes end Fri Dec 10.
 
Final Exam will be Thursday, Dec 16, 2010, from 2-5 pm

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