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Syllabus and Lecture Slides-Spring 2004

Week 1: January 5

• Monday: Welcome to Introduction to Media Computation!.
  • Reading: Chapter 1
  • Start Lab 1

• Breakout: Introduction to JES.
  • Reading: Chapter 2

• Friday: Introduction to Programming.
  • Reading: Chapter 2
  • Lab 1 is due. Start Lab 2

Week 2: January 12

• Monday: How pictures are encoded and manipulated.
  • Reading: Chapter 3, pages 40-54

• Breakout: Manipulating pictures from Python.

• Friday: Using loops to manipulate pictures
  • Reading: Chapter 3, pages 54-63
  • Lab 2 due.
  • Start Lab 3

Week 3: January 19

• Monday: MLK Jr. Day–NO CLASS!

• Breakout: Exploring Greyscale. Help with HW1.

• Friday: Replacing colors
  • Reading: Chapter 3, pages 98-100
  • Lab 3 is due.
  • Start Homework 1
  • Start Pre-quiz #1

Week 4: January 26

• Monday: Understanding functions
  • Pre-quiz 1 is due. Quiz 1 is today. Bring a calculator
  • Reading: Chapter 3, pages 63-68

• Breakout: Manipulating particular pixels in loops
  • Reading: Chapter 3, page 72-73

• Friday: Removing red eye, and mirroring an image
  • Reading: Chapter 3, pp. 73-79, 98-101
  • Homework 1 due.
  • Start Homework 2

Week 5: February 2

• Monday: Copying pictures, cropping, and scaling.
  • Reading: Chapter 3, 79-98

• Breakout: More image manipulation examples
  • How rotating works
  • How mirroring works
  • Blurring to improve scaling
  • Review for Midterm

• Friday:
  • Finished scaling

Week 6: February 9

• Monday: MIDTERM EXAM #1

• Breakout: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
  • Reading: Chapter 5, 136-153

• Thursday (shifted to allow time for Midterm studying, and getting help in Breakouts)
  • Homework 2 is due at 5 pm.

• Friday: Loops and Volume Manipulations
  • (FRIDAY FEB. 13 IS DROP DAY!)
  • Reading: Chapter 5, 153-163

Week 7: February 16

• Monday: Using ranges with loops, splicing.
  • Reading: Chapter 5, 166-175
  • Start Homework 3

• Breakout: Finishing splicing.
  • Help with Homework 3

• Friday: Start design and debugging. How do you start a program? How do you finish it?
  • Reading: Chapter 7 and chapter 122-128
  • Start Take Home Exam 1

Week 8: February 23

• Monday: Text as a medium. Building and manipulating strings. Searching for parts of strings (e.g., sequences of nucleotides).
  • Homework 3 due by 5 pm
  • Reading: Chapter 8, 212-221

• Breakout: Drawing directly on images, bitmap vs. vector formats. Programs for graphics or sound specification. Using dot notation. Building random sentences.
  • Reading: Chapter 4, 128-134
  • Reading: 229-230

• Friday: Files–The home of all media. What they are, how to read and write them. Writing programs to manipulate programs.
  • Reading: 221-227
  • Take Home Exam 1 is due.
  • Start Pre-Quiz 2
  • Start Lab 4: Build your own homepage

Week 9: March 1

• Monday: Finishing files

• Breakout: What is HTML
  • Reading: Chapter 9, REMOVED 244-248

• Friday: Files in trees – manipulating bunches of files at once. How to make file names.
  • Reading: REMOVED 229
  • Pre-quiz 2 is due. Quiz 2 is today!

Week of March 8: SPRING BREAK!

Week 10: March 15

• Monday: Networks: How the Web and FTP work. Grabbing files from the Internet and searching for content using string manipulation.
  • Reading: Chapter 8, 232-236
  • Lab 4 due.
  • Start Homework 4

• Breakout: Finishing up intro to HTML

• Friday: Movies are easy: How movies are encoded.
  • Reading: Chapter 10

Week 11: March 22

• Monday: Finishing Movies
  • Start Lab 5 on Excel
  • Homework 4 is due

• Breakout: Databases: Why use databases, what is SQL. What do databases have to do with the Web?
  • Review for Midterm #2

• Friday: MIDTERM EXAM #2
  • Start Take Home Exam 2

Week 12: March 29

• Monday: "Can't we do this any FASTER?": How a computer works, or why Photoshop is always faster.
  • Section 11.1.1 (p. 282)
  • Finish Lab 5 on Excel (It's DUE on this day.)

• Breakout: Mediashifting: It's all about representations. Sound to text to graphics.
  • Reading: Chapter 8, 236-243

• Friday: "Can't we do this any FASTER?": Algorithmic complexity.
  • Start Homework 5
  • Reading: Section 11.1

Week 13: April 5

• Monday: "What CAN'T we program?" The limits of computation.
  • Reading: Section 11.1 (especially p. 287-293)
  • Finishing lecture from Friday

• Wed April 7 AT NOON
  • Take Home Exam 2 is due

• Breakout: "Can't we do this any EASIER?" Decomposition into functions. What makes a good function?
  • Reading: Section 11.2 (p. 293)

• Friday: "Do we have to write so many lines?" Functional programming. Programming in only one line.
  • Reading: Section 11.3 (p. 297)
  • Start Homework 6
  • Pre-Quiz #3 is distributed

Week 14: April 12

• Monday: "Can't we do this any easier?" Introductions to objects.
  • Pre-Quiz #3 is due. Quiz 3 is today
  • Reading: Sec. 11.4
  • Homework 5 is due

• Breakout: Recursion
  • Reading: Section 11.3.1 (p. 301)

• Friday: Media programming with objects.
  • Reading: Section 11.4.2

Week 15: April 19

• Monday: "What does programming look like in other languages?" A taste of JavaScript.
  • Reading: Chapter 12
  • Homework 6 is due

• Breakout: "What does programming look like in other languages?" A taste of Squeak
  • Review for Final (Do review first)

• Friday: Finishing JavaScript

Finals Week April 26-30

• 12 Noon Lecture (Blair's): Tuesday 4/27 8-10:50
• 2 pm Lecture (Colin's): Tuesday 4/27 11:30-2:20

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