• dan.osullivan@nyu.edu
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 Spring 2015

Hi Prospective Students.

In 2015 I will be rearranging the syllabus to emphasize the manipulation of image over physical interface.

Dan

• Week1: What is programming, What is Processing, Image Command
• Week2: Change:  Code Blocks, Looping, Video, Tint, Blend, Filter, SubImage, Mouse
• Week3: Time:  For, If, Pixels, Image Processing, Thresholding, Edges, Blurring
• Week4: Structure: Computer Vision, Video Tracking
• Week5: More Structure: OpenCV, Kinect Depth Sensing
• Week6: Organization: Objects
• Week7: Show Midterm
• Week8: Many Cameras: Images on Network IP Cameras, SmartPhone Cameras
• Week9: Data: Instagram API, Google Images API
• Week10: Research
• Week11:Final Project Proposals
• Week12:User Testing
• Week13:Show Final Projects

 

Variation on these Syllabi, ICM  Comperas

 

 From Spring 2014

• Week 1: January 27  Electric Marks
  • Topic: Computers for the Rest of You
  • Tech: Breadboard, Arduino Pins, Power, Resistor, LED, Switch
  • Reading: Universal Media
  • Assignment:
    • Create a circuit with a switch (not for your hands) and make a post in this blog about it.  Use the “Rest of You” category.
    • Before Next Class Read Digital I/O
• Week 2: February 3  You are a Master of Atoms and Bits
  • Show: Switches
  • Topic: Software
  • Tech Arduino application, setup, loop, if statement
  • Assignment: Have your program do more than one thing.
  • Before Next Class Read This Variables and Analog IO
• Week 3:  February 10 Variation and Analog IO
  • Show: Conditonal Switch
  • Tech: Variables, Variable Resistors, PWM
  • Assignment:
    • Stupid Pet Trick.  Follow some silly, ridiculous notion in demonstrating your mastery of things like digital and analog I/O.  You can be profound if you must.  Post on the blog using category “Stupid Pet Trick”
    • Watch videos about drawing 
      • Download Processing.
      • Draw something in Processing using commands like rect, line, ellipse, fill, stroke etc.
      • Post and maybe picture on the blog under category “Paint by Numbers”
    • Also watch videos about Flow, MouseX, MouseY –we can do the assignment base on them in class
• Week -:  February 17  Presidents Day
  • NO CLASS NO CLASS NO CLASS
• Week 4: February 24  Drawing and Animation
  • Show: Stupid Pet Trick
  • Topic: Symbols
  • In Class:  Different Programming Languages, Set Up, Draw, MouseX, MouseY to make a paint program.
  • Assignment:
    • Watch Videos Variables If Statements –Make something that bounces off the walls.  Please use “Animation” category.
    • Watch video about loops and  Functions (maybe objects)  — will do assignment in class.
    • Reading: Lev Manovich
• Week 5: March 3 Scale (Part 1)
  • Show: Psychedelic Bouncing Ball
  • In Class: Make Your Own Functions; Use For Loop
  • Assignment:
    • Reading: Digitize Everything (Economics)
    • Make Art or a Game with functions and for loops and post it categorized as “Organized” (but don’t look at these Sol LeWitt, Camille Jer Thorp, Marian Bantjes, Casey, Toxi, Mary Huang,  Marius Watz, Robert Hodgin)
    • Watch Objects and Arrays and For Loops
• Week 6: March 10 Scale (Part 2)
  • Show: Art or a Game (with functions and for loops)
  • In Class: Create Objects, store them in arrays and attend to them in for loops.
  • Assignment:
    • Create many graphical things.
    • Blog About the Nature of Computational Media. Why did computers appear?  What is Hard About Communication? What do computers add? Is Computational Media Better at Expressing Your Internal Life? Does narrative and interactivity go together?  Is this Good?
    • Read About Serial Programming Callbacks, Agreements, ASCII vs Binary, Serial Objects, Identifying Ports,
• Week -: March 17 Spring Break
  • NO CLASS NO CLASS NO CLASS
• Week 7: March 24  Telecommunication—
  • Show: Scale
  • In Class: Get one byte going between your Arduino and Processing
  • Assignment:
    • Make a physical controller or output for whatever you have made in processing.
    • Read about Computer Vision — will do assignment in class
• Week 8: March 31  Pixels
  • Show Controller
  • In Class: Image Processing and Tracking
  • Assignment:
    • Transform and Image or Track a Color
    • Read about Data
    • Inspiration for for your “Characteristic of Computational Media” post,  Digitize Everything (Economics),  Jump To Universal (Language), Lev Manovich (Media)
• Week 9: April 7  Parsing Text
  • Show Vision
  • In Class: Parsing Data
  • Assignment:
    • Create a Data Source or Use External Datasource (Category Data)
    • Make a Final Project Proposal
• Week 10: April 14
  • Show: Data
  • Due Blog Post about Characteristics of Computational Media (Category Characteristics)
  • In Class: Final Project Proposals
  • Assignment: Start Final Project
• Week 11: April 21  User Test
  • Show: Final In Progress
  • Topic: Feedback
  • In Class: One on One Feedback
  • Assignment: Finish Final Project (Final Project Category)
• Week 12: April 28 Final Presentations

Also see Introduction to Physical Computing and ICM syllabi