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UCSC, Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program

DANM 220: Computer Programming for the Arts, Winter 2008

Professor: Ralph Abraham, Ph.D. Math

Teaching Assistant: Katie Scott, Ph.D. Earth Science

• Syllabus*

We anticipate five workshops of two weeks duration, each with a programming assignment. Students will choose which three of the five will count for credit.

The first two workshops are to be devoted to the same programming language, so four languages in all will be introduced. These will be chosen from the tentative language list, acccording to the interests of the group.

• Projects*

In addition to three programming assignments, each student (for credit) will create a term project in one or more of the languages. This will play the role of the final exam, and must be presented in class during the last week.

• Schedule*

We will meet in the Digital Arts Lab, Porter College D-245, T/Th 10-11:30 am.

• Workshop #1: Net Logo, basic?*

  • 1T, 08 Jan 2008: Introduction to the course Survey of the Net Logo Model Library
  • 1R, 10 Jan 2008: Net Logo by Dissection:Demo02.nlogo (turtle graphics)
  • 2T, 15 Jan 2008: Building a Net Logo model
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  • 2R, 17 Jan 2008: 2D modeling, cont'd
  • Final WS1, 21 Jan 2008 Net Logo first project

• Workshop #2: Net Logo, advanced?*

  • 3T, 22 Jan 2008: Turtle shape editor Dissect student work?
  • 3R, 24 Jan 2008: The sound extension 2R without notes
  • 4T, 28 Jan 2008: 3D modeling, Hubnet
  • 4R, 31 Jan 2008: The system dynamics toolkit

• Workshop #5: SMIL?*

  • 9T, 04 Mar 2008: How to combine video, audio, animation, and text in a web presentation Intro
  • 9R, 06 Mar 2008: SMIL Embedding in HTML SMIL in HTML
  • 10T, 11 Mar 2008:SMIL Written by PHP SMIL document
  • 10R, 13 Mar 2008: Final meeting