Dano-Wed-2014.md

Daniel O'Sullivan ICM 2014

Syllabus

• Main Syllabus
• General ICM Page: includes links to helpful resources, work from other sections, and instructions on how to upload your homework.

Mailing List

• Dano Wed ICM google group -- this will be used for administrative announcements for our section only.
• Main ICM Google Group -- this will be used for discussion and questions related to the course content.

Homework

• Homework Wiki: This is where you post links to your weekly assignments

Links

Debugging Schedule / Contact

• Wednesday, 12:10pm - 3:05pm, Room 445
• [email protected]
• Office Hours Sign Up

Requirements

• You are required to attend all class meetings and submit all weekly assignments and a final project.

• Grading (pass/fail) will be based on a combination of factors:

  • Attendance, participation in class discussion, and engagement in other students' projects (25%)
  • Quality of weekly assignments (50%)
  • Final Project (25%)
  • Personal progress; how much did you advance from your initial state in this class.

Class Dates (all Wednesdays)

• Week 1: September 3

• Week 2: September 10

• Week 3: September 17

• Week 4: September 24 https://gist.github.com/dano1234/2d70bb6d74cc511fcab1#file-music

• Week 5: October 1 https://gist.github.com/dano1234/2d70bb6d74cc511fcab1#file-babymaking

• Week 6: October 8

  • Differences between Array ArrayList
  • ArrayList
  • Pixels
  • Chars

• Week 7: October 15

  • Edges
  • Track
  • kinect

• Week 8: October 22

  • Load Strings
  • Count Words
  • Load XML
  • Within Processing, under File>Examples...>Topics>Advanced Data, look at LoadSaveTable, LoadSaveXML, LoadSaveXML

• Week 9: November 29

• Week 10: November 5

• Week 11: November 12

• Week 12: November 19

Notes: Week 2

Variation. Your static pictures are using variables. Difference between Descrete and Combinatorial System. Why is it static because you used hard numbers instead of variables Variables Take time to understand how to use. Storage, Memorables.
What do you want to vary. X,Y,Z , difficulty, sadness, luck

What Can you express with variables that you could not express with a static or predestined system

Universal Machine, Reflect human change IA mousex

What if the the code became a variable and the machine could change that? AI

Holodeck What are the variables of story.

Variables keep track of things of time.

And because there is not life or time to the program.

Code Blocks, Paragraphs, Non Linearity

Stay in the present moment. The most things that make money in this world are about do better than chance at predicting or creating the future. Declare the type of variable Initialize variable Vary the Variable