Media Computation Teachers Website

General page for Media Computation project is at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan (Papers, talks, etc. there) To get a quickie overall view of what the media computation is about, check out What can you do with this? for the intro CS1 course (also used in CS0 or CS0.5 courses at some institutions), or What is this class all about? for a CS2 (data structures) class.

If you're looking for the latest JES, that's here

NOTE: Due to too much WikiSpam, we have locked down all our Swikis. When you edit or append to a page (via an "Add to this page" box), you will be prompted for a username and password. Use attach and carmen. Thankfully for us, WikiBots can't read. Yet.

Mailing list: There is now a mailing list for ALL media computation teachers (Python or Java). Please visit https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/mediacomp-teach for more information and to subscribe (or unsubscribe). (You can find archives of the older mediacomp-py mailing list at https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/mediacomp-py

NSF-sponsored Media Computation Workshops 2008!

Please do come join us!

Media Computation Art Gallery BOF at SIGCSE'07

Schools Using MediaComp

Please list your school and your class URL, if it's publicly available. Teachers have told us that they find it valuable to see others' syllabi and see how similar schools to their own have structured their media computation classes.

Java - Media Computation Java FAQ (This includes schools using the data structures materials)

University of Mass. at Boston by Robert Cohen (rfc at cs.umb.edu) http://www.cs.umb.edu/~rfc/courses/f05/csit114/handouts/syllabus.html
Denison University - MediaComp in Java
- http://personal.denison.edu/~bressoud/cs171-f04/ and http://personal.denison.edu/~bressoud/cs171-f05/syllabus.htm
- http://personal.denison.edu/~kretchmar/171/
Georgia Tech http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1316
Duke University - sound chapters Jeff Forbes http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall05/cps001/
Northwestern College, Orange City, IA 51041, Mark Vellinga, vellinga at nwciowa.edu
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, David A. Furcy, furcyd AT uwosh DOT edu: http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/furcyd/cs221/galleries/StudentGalleries.htm
University of Northern Iowa: [link to follow]
- Eugene Wallingford's blog on why MediaComp: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2006-06.html#e2006-06-14T15_49_31.htm
St. Thomas University, Florida, Philip Ventura, (pventura at STU.EDU)
New Mexico Highlands University by Curtis Sollohub (csollohub at nmhu.edu)
Norfolk State Un. CS Instructor / Hickory High School APCS by Richard de Paulo (rdepaulo at cox.net)
John Carroll University Linda Seiter (lseiter at jcu.edu)
John Avila, San Jose State University (johnavila at earthlink.net)
- San Jose State University: http://cs.sjsu.edu/~avila/onlineMaterials/cs49J/cs49JGreensheet.html
private high school in the Baltimore, Maryland area Lance Allen (lanceallen.allen at gmail.com)
public high schools in DeKalb County, Fulton County, and Columbus County in Georgia
- Chamblee Charter High School, DeKalb, Jada Brown
- Hardaway High School, Columbus
- Tri-Cities High School, Fulton County, Mr. Yu (Gary) Liu, liug1@fultonschools.org
West Virginia Institute of Technology: http://www.wvutech.edu/mclark/CSCI121-2006/cs1_lectures.htm
Rollins College http://web.rollins.edu/~dchild/Syllabus-167-06.html
University of Western Ontario: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/courses/CS026a/outline.html
Columbia College: http://www.technetrain.com/CMPSC15/
Collierville High School, Collierville, TN, Bob Vawter, bvawter at scsk12.org
Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, Geoffrey Knauth
University of New Mexico, Andree Jacobson
Rollins College, Hamilton Holt School, Larry M. Holt
California State University, Long Beach - Dr. Alvaro E. Monge

Python - Media Computation Python FAQ (Python book available now as an e-book at http://www.coursesmart.com/0131176552)

Alderson-Broaddus College CSci390:ST-MediaComp, CSci136 Computational Thinking
Georgia Tech http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315
- Camp ICE for high school students 2007 http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/566 and http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/535
- Also in our "Camp ICE" for Middle School and High School students 2006 : http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/icecamp/71 and http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu/icecamp/51
- Graduate version CS4452 – check out collages at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/2240
Gainesville College (North Georgia)
Univ. of Calif. Santa Cruz http://danm.ucsc.edu/courses/2004-05/fall/220/syllabus/
UIC (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) http://www.cs.uic.edu/~i100 (non-majors version)
- UIC ("CS 0.5" for incoming CS majors with zero or near-zero programming background) http://wiki.cs.uic.edu:8080/CS101
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/student/comp2720/
Plymouth State University: http://turing.plymouth.edu/~zshen/Webfiles/notes/CS110/NoteProgramming.pdf
Rivier College: http://www.rivier.edu/faculty/vriabov/CS120_syl_fa05.pdf
Kalamazoo College http://www.cs.kzoo.edu/cs107/ see http://www.cs.kzoo.edu/cs107/Labs/studentWebPages.shtml
Union College, http://cs.union.edu/~barrv/csc065/
Ryerson University, Toronto
University of Texas at El Paso
University of California at Berkeley (new self-paced course by Mike Clancy)
University of California at Riverside
University of California, Santa Clara: http://www.cse.scu.edu/send.cgi?N&courses/topics/2006Spring/Mikkilineni.htm
Blue Ridge Community College
University of San Francisco http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/courses/110/ and http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~wolber/courses/107/
Muhlenberg College
University of Alaska, Anchorage http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/cs109py/
Southern Catholic College
Clemson University http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~malloy/courses/372-2006/372.html
Brown University in their Artemis Summer Camp http://www.cs.brown.edu/orgs/artemis/
Centre College: http://web.centre.edu/oldham/CentreTerm/2006/FRS2006Index.html
Ohio State: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/syllabus-view.cgi?cgi_state=view;SYLLABUS_ID=632
- New version: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/syllabus-view.cgi?cgi_state=view;SYLLABUS_ID=651
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario, Canada
Smith College http://maven.smith.edu/~jfrankli/111f06/
Virginia Tech http://perez.cs.vt.edu:16080/mediacomputation/
Kennesaw State University http://science.kennesaw.edu/~jgarrido/CS8990.htm
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, by Susan Fox fox at macalester dot edu
North Carolina Central University, Dr. R. N. Uma
University of New Mexico, Andree Jacobson
Saint Mary's University in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada), "Sageev"

Reports on Using Media Computation

Assessment Tools

Information on Books

Introduction to computing and programming with Python: A Multimedia Approach (ISBN 0-13-117655-2) was published December 2004. Amazon Page for Book Here

Python Book Bugs List

Introduction to computing and programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach was published in April 2006. It looks like this.
Uploaded Image: bookCover.jpg

For slides, instructor manual, Java classes, and more book materials see http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-plan/101

Now in Chinese!

Resources

The National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT) has highlighted Media Computation as a curricular approach for attracting women to IT. See the great program that they created for their Inaugural Practices Workshop at http://www.ncwit.org/pdf/Practices_Program.pdf
JES 3.0 Downloads
High School Resources:
- The new computing curriculum for the state of Georgia is at http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/ci_cta.aspx?PageReq=CICTACRComp
- Georgia Tech's Institute for Computing Education
JES Bugs List (Old Bugs List)
All PowerPoints used at Georgia Tech MediaComp (Python) in Spring 2004 all-ppts.zip
- PowerPoint slides used in Spring 2006: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/3547
Additional Media Tools
Media Computation Project Ideas
- New Way of Rotating in MediaComp Python
- Movie Effect: Sprint Ahead
Release Versions of MediaComp Software New candidate release 2.16 available here! (CPython version also available here.)
- Development Site for JES (Old Development Versions of JES – source available here)
- Speeding up Media Computation
- How do I change JES for my institution?
More Java MediaComp Resources
- Lab Materials for Java Media Computation
Information on Media Computation Data Structures Class including a video of a sample lecture.
Demonstrations of the use of the Java MediaComputation materials (needs QuickTime (free)):
- About 40Mb (320x240 screen): JavaBookWalkthrough-Big.mov
- About 172Mb (640x480 screen): JavaBookWalkthrough-Huge.mov (Has a slightly different and extended introduction, but the demo is the same.)
- http://www.sampleswap.org/ Free sounds