| CODE | DGA1017 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Programming for Artists and Designers 1 | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | ogramming for Artists and Designers 1 will consist of lectures introducing students to the fundamentals of programming, followed by special topics that will expand on their ability to express themselves experimentally with code. Core programming skills will include: variables, conditionals, loops and random numbers. Special topics will focus around interactivity, image and audio processing. Study-Unit Aims: - Provide a solid foundation of programming experience; - Provide students with skills to develop interactive and experimental programs; - Encourage students to think critically about interactivity and experimentation in code. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify the fundamental concepts of visual programming; - employ the fundamental concepts of interactive software to art and design projects; - critically discuss and justify interactive and experimental projects; - describe the main programming constructs (variables, conditions and loops). 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Implement programs that make use of variables, conditions, loops and generation or random numbers; - Implement programs that can import images and make use of image data; - Implement programs that can import audio files and make use of audio data; - Develop their own experimental programs that express their ideas and interests. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Casey Reas and Ben Fry (2014), Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition. Supplementary Readings: - Jeffrey L. Nyhoff, Larry R. Nyhoff (2017), Processing: An Introduction to Programming, First Edition, Chapman and Hall/CRC. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Elena Said Dylan Seychell (Co-ord.) |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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