teaching
CMSC 117
Introduction to Computing: Interactive Systems
overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | gallery | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topics | readings | presentation | work assigned |
| 1 | 9/03/2012 | course introduction | syllabus | designblocks self-portrait | |
| 9/05-07/2012 | coordinates; shapes; color | shiffman ch. 1-2 | |||
| 2 | 9/10/2012 | sketching, computationally | "Hackers and Painters" by Paul Graham | bard117f12.sketchpad.cc; self-portrait II assignment; designblocks critique | |
| 9/12-14/2012 | interaction | shiffman ch. 3 | |||
| 3 | 9/17/2012 | arithmetic; variables | shiffman ch. 4; bogost: introduction, art | "Pianos Not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits" by Resnick, Bruckman, and Martin(Ameer and Joshua) | |
| 9/19-21/2012 | |||||
| 4 | 9/24/2012 | branching; conditionals | shiffman ch. 5; bogost: empathy & reverence | "Affordances of the Digital Medium" by Janet Murray from Inventing the Medium (Ch. 2)(Abhinanda, Catherine & Robert) | game assignment; self-portrait II critique |
| 9/26-28/2012 | |||||
| 5 | 10/01/2012 | repetition; loops | shiffman ch. 6; bogost: music & pranks | "Computer Programming as an Art" by Donald Knuth (Cole, Dan, & Kara) | game assignment I critique |
| 10/03-05/2012 | 6 | 10/08/2012 | fall break | 10/10-12/2012 | bugs! |
| 7 | 10/15/2012 | trig; transformations | shiffman ch. 13-14; bogost: transit | "Taste for Makers" by by Paul Graham (Dee, Katie C., and Joe) | clock assignment |
| 10/16-18/2012 | functions; good code | shiffman ch. 7 | |||
| 8 | 10/22/2012 | objects | shiffman ch. 8; bogost: branding | "Computer Software" by Alan Kay (Dylan, Victoria, Gwendolyn) | |
| 10/24-26/2012 | |||||
| 9 | 10/29/2012 | arrays | shiffman ch. 9; Bogost: electioneering & promotion | "As We May Think" by V. Bush (Benjamin, Georgina, Ezekiel & Valentina) | clock critique; game assignment II |
| 10/31-02/2012 | images; pixels | shiffman ch. 15;
bogost: snapshots | |||
| 10 | 11/05/2012 | shiffman ch.10-12 | "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system" by Ivan Sutherland (David, Ruby, & Robbie) | ||
| 11/07-09/2012 | Midterm | ||||
| 11 | 11/12/2012 | video | shiffman ch. 16; bogost: texture & kitsch | "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" by Alan Turing (Collin, Nicole, and Diana) | photobooth assignment; project proposal |
| 11/14-16/2012 | |||||
| 12 | 11/19/2012 | text | shiffman ch. 17; bogost: relaxation & throwaways | "ELIZA- a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine" by Joseph Weizenbaum (Sadiki, Harrison, and Aven) | project critique |
| 11/21-23/2012 | |||||
| 13 | 11/26/2012 | data; files | shiffman ch. 18; bogost: titilation & exercise | "In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits" by Chris Anderson (Ally and Sonakshi) | graphical excellence critique; project design |
| 11/28-30/2012 | visualization assignment | ||||
| 14 | 12/03/2012 | information and disinformation design | tufte article on moodle; bogost: work & habituation | "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II" by Fred Brooks (Christeina & Ashley) | |
| 12/05-07/2012 | |||||
| 15 | 12/10/2012 | sound I | shiffman ch. 20; bogost: disinterest & drill | "Procedural Literacy: Educating the New Media Practitioner" by Michael Mateas (Garrett, Sam & Charley) | |
| 12/12-14/2012 | |||||
| 16 | 12/18/2012 Tuesday @ 5-8pm | Final Project Presentations | |||