Parsons School of Design
School of Art Media and Technology
BFA Communication Design
PUCD 2035 Section K, CRN 7640
Fall 2017
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 9:40pm
2 West 13th Street, Room 402
Class Slack
Agnes Chang
changa2@newschool.edu
| Topic | Assignment | ||
| W1 | 8/29 | What is creative computing? Instruction and describing behavior. |
Do: "Do what?" Read: Braitenburg Vehicles |
| W2 | 9/5 | What is a server? What is a client? Mechanics of the internet and what’s up with all the acronyms: HTML, CSS, JS. |
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| W3 | 9/12 | Intro to CSS: Describing visuals and objects |
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| W4 | 9/19 | Describing action | |
| W5 | 9/26 | What is hover? Describing reaction |
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| W6 | 10/3 | More visuals: Random and other generators |
Iterative composition: randomness
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| W7 | 10/10 | More actions: Variables, Input/Output Mid-term feedback |
Iterative composition: dynamism
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| W8 | 10/17 | More actions: Loops |
Iterative composition: repetition
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| W9 | 10/24 | More reactions: Conditionals |
Iterative composition: logic
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| W10 | 10/31 | Describing the real world: Data |
Iterative composition: text and numerical data
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| W11 | 11/7 | More real world: APIs |
Final project: ideas
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| W12 | 11/14 | More tools: p5.js and drawing libraries |
Final project: first draft
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| — | 11/21 | No class | — |
| W13 | 11/28 | In-progress critique |
Final project: second draft
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| W14 | 12/5 | Work session and Course evaluation |
Final project: presentation
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| W15 | 12/12 | Final critique |
Final documentation
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