Syllabus Fall 18

 1)This syllabus will be a living document and will change as the class evolves. Please check it regularly. Not only will the topics change but new support material will be posted as well.

2) The best way to learn Processing and Arduino is experimenting with them by writing code. Your assignments will be to post weekly sketches that utilizes, leverages and recombines the coding concepts presented in class.

Link to your folders

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Week 1
 Thursday
 9/6

Class Introduction:

Processing
Arduino


Processing and Arduino Integrated Development Environment or IDE.



Coordinate System



Screen Size
 size(100,100);
 

Functions (code elements) (see code tree)


Parameters 

Flow and Code Blocks 

void setup()
{
}

void draw()
{
}

Functions:
Drawing:
size(_,_);
line(_,_,_,_);
rect(_,_,_,_);
ellipse(_,_,_,_);

Color:
Color functions have 4 variations.
stroke(_); grey
stroke(_,_); grey, alpha
stroke(_,_,_); RGB
stroke(_,_,_,_); RGB Alpha

These are applicable to fill() and background too. (background doesn't have alpha channels though)

System variables
mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY, width, height,

Conditionals
if(___________)
{
//do something if statement is true
} 

mousePressed();
keyPressed();

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Week 2
Thursday
9/13

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Week 3
Thursday
9/20


Week 4
Thursday
9/27

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Week 5
Thursday
10/4

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Week 6
Thursday
10/11

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Week 7
Thursday
10/18

12:00 
12:20 
12:40 
1:00 
1:20 
1:40 
2:00 
2:20 

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Week 8
 Thursday
 10/25
Lab

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Week 9
 Thursday
 11/1
Lab

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Week 10
 Thursday
 11/8
Lab

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Week 11
 11/15
Lab

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Week 12
 11/22
 Thanksgiving

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Week 13
 11/29
Lab

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Week 14
 12/6
Lab

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Week 15
 12/13
Lab

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12/14
 Interface Show

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Menu of topics to be covered:

Chance and Emergence
Patterns and Chaos
Garden of Forking Paths
On Screen / Off Screen

Electronics:
Arduino
Ohm's Law
Voltage
Current
Resistance
Power
AC 
DC
LEDS
Resistors
Sensors 
Alex Benz formula
Analog and Digital
Transisters/Mosfets
Actuators
Motors
DC Moters
Hobby Servos
Steppers
Solenoids
Pneumatics
Muscle Wire

Arduino Shields

Programming:
Syntax
Variables
Punctuation
Functions
Color
Drawing (mouse)
Conditions
Iteration (Loops) 
Nesting
Drawing (Procedural)
Images
Video
Sound
Timing Strategies 
Counters
Millis based delays
Easing
Communication
Events or Listeners 
Using Arrays to store numbers, strings, images etc

 

Complex Data Types
Text and Fonts
Images

Classes

 Libraries

 Serial
 Sound (Mimin   Library)
 Video
 Installing 3rd Party Libraries
 Kinect
 Leap motion
 UDP (if we want to share data)

 

 Advanced:

 Objects/Classes