Week 01: Intro to Creative Coding and p5js

Class zoom link will be emailed to your email account.

Lecture

For our first class, we will go over a brief history of computer programming, how programming has been used as an artistic medium in the past, and introduce you to p5js which is the framework we will be using in this class.

• Our first Coding Example
• Dropbox Link to Zoom Recording

Resources

1. p5js Editor
2. Professor Antonius’s Lecture Slides
3. Professor Danne Woo’s lecture slides
4. p5js Web Editor Demo with Professor Danne Woo

In-Class Assignment

1. Sign up for Slack
2. Send an email using the email address you plan to use for Slack to antonius.wiriadjaja@qc.cuny.edu

Homework

1. Read through the Getting Started page on p5js.
2. Look at some examples on the p5js examples page.
3. Post your favorite example on Slack and be prepared to discuss it next week.
4. Watch Dan Shiffman’s video on Programming with p5js.
5. Watch Dan Shiffman’s video on the p5js web editor.
6. Watch Prof. Danne Woo’s week 2 lecture video and come with questions to our Slack class next week.

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