Schedule

Week 1 - September 14 - Surrounded by Instructions

In-class:

• Course overview
• Discussion: What is language? What is a programming language?
• Presentation: Processing demo - environment, code, coordinates, primatives

Due:

• in-class exercise - peanut butter
• in-class exercise - "Hello, World!"

Week 2 - September 21 - Pseudo Code (think small)

In-class:

• Presentation: Instructional art (Fluxus), Algorithms, Sol LeWitt
• Presentation: variables, data types, operators, arithmetic, decisions

Read for today:

• "Software and Drawing" by Casey Reas
• "Getting Started with Processing" from Visualizing Data by Ben Fry

Due:

• Program 00
• in-class sketch: 4 Lines - Part 1

Week 3 - October 5 - User Stories

In-class:

• Presentation: Software design
• Presentation: User stories and Software design
• Presentation: repetition, vertices, curves, color, images

Read for today:

• "What is Interaction Design" from Designing Interactions by Gillian Crampton Smith PDF

Due:

• 4 Lines - Part 2 - Complete Part 2 of the in-class exercise from last week

• in-class exercise: bounce

• in-class exercise: imagine

Week 4 - October 19 - Simplicity

In-class:

• Presentation: Stages of software development
• Presentation: text, typography, data, math

Read for today:

• "The Laws of Simplicity" by John Maeda PDF

Due:

• Program DRAW - Complete Part 2 of the in-class exercise from last week
• in-class exercise - musical chairs

Week 5 - October 26 - Getting Loopy

In-class:

• Presentation: Approaches to algorithms
• Presentation: transformations, continuous, functions

Read for today:

TBA

Due:

• Program TYPE
• in-class exercise - clear

Week 6 - November 2 - What if?

In-class:

• Presentation: Software and self-expression
• Presentation: input, mouse, keyboard, events

Read for today:

• "1. Intermediation" from My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles [PDF]

Due:

• Program TIME
• in-class exercise -

Week 7 - November 9 - Lists of lists

In-class:

• Presentation: Code and Culture
• Presentation: mouse, time, response

Read for today:

• "Larry Tesler" from Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge PDF
• "Bill Verplank" from Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge PDF

Week 8 - November 16 - Interactions

In-class:

• Presentation: Design Patterns
• Presentation: capturing user interactions

Read for today:
* "Chapter 10 – People and Prototypes" from Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge [PDF]

Due:

• Program MAP
• Student Presentation v0.1
• Student Presentation v0.2
• Student Presentation v0.3

Week 9 - November 23 - Data

In-class:

• Presentation: working with data

Read for today:

• "The Seven Stages of Visualizing Data" from Visualizing Data by Ben Fry [PDF]

Due:

• Final Project Proposal
• Student Presentation v0.3
• Student Presentation v0.4
• Student Presentation v0.5

Week 10 - November 30

In-class:

• Team Meetings
• Working Sessions

Due:

• Rough Draft - Design Document
• Student Presentation v0.6
• Student Presentation v0.7
• Student Presentation v0.8

Week 11 - December 7 - Begin Coding

In-class:

• Team Meetings
• Working Session

Week 12 - December 14 - Demo Critique

In-class:

• Critique of project demos
• Team Meetings

Due:

• Final project demos

Week 13 - December 15

In-class:

• Class recap

Due:

• Presentation of final projects

Attachment	Size
Gillian-Crampton-Smith_What-is-Interaction-Design.pdf.pdf	1.03 MB
John-Maeda_The-Laws-of-Simplicity.pdf	1.88 MB
Bill-Moggridge_Larry-Tesler.pdf	1.82 MB
Bill-Moggridge_Bill-Verplank.pdf	1.14 MB