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The Nature of Code Studio

Spring 2013
Wednesdays 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Daniel Shiffman, daniel.shiffman@nyu.edu
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Important Sites

Book: http://natureofcode/com
Code Examples: https://github.com/shiffman/The-Nature-of-Code-Examples
Course site with all videos and supplemental material: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000898/index.html
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/itp.nyu.edu/group/natureofcode/

Syllabus / Schedule

Week 1: Jan 30 Introduction

Week 2: Feb 6 Vectors and Forces

Week 3: Feb 13 Oscillation

Week 4: Feb 20 Particle Systems

Week 5: Feb 26 Physics Libraries Box2D

Week 6: Mar 6 Physics Libraries Toxiclibs

Week 7: Mar 13 Midterm Project Extravaganza

Midterm Documentation / Schedule

SPRING BREAK: March 20

Week 8: March 27: Autonomous Agents, CA, Fractals

Week 9: April 3: Advanced steering and Genetic Algorithms

Week 10: April 10: Museum of Math Field Trip

Schedule

Week 11: April 17: Final Project Proposal Day

Additional Reading

You can find everything here: http://natureofcode.com/book/further-reading/

Homework Students are required to complete a programming exercise each week. Documentation for each assignment should be posted to the page as listed above.

Requirements: (no incompletes)

50% homeworks
30% final project
20% class participation, attendance