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Yesterday evening (Wednesday) I recorded a pencast about variables; the Q&A from class today was similar, but there’s more information from the in-class pencast than the one made in advance.
Hopefully, either/both will be of use as you review and explore the use of variables.
If you want to get started for next Tuesday, you can read Chapter 4 of Learning Processing. I’ll have the lab posted later tonight.
The first two days have, I thought, been excellent. Both Prof. Roos thought it was awesome how you were ready to go today, dove in, and started in with Processing.
I don’t know if you realize it, but by coming up with three, 10-line works of art, you’ve now written at least 30 lines of code in Java. I think this is especially great because you all had just finished talking about how nervous you were about this class.
I’m pretty sure you’re all going to rock. Keep up the good energy.
If you would be so kind as to read Studying Programming, chapter 4, for Thursday, that would be wonderful. (Please look in Sakai for this material, under Resources.) I know it is short notice. I really wanted to see how things went before getting too far ahead; we’ll get the website built out further shortly.
I’ve got three pencasts for you. They are intended to supplement the next readings. So, they’re for next Tuesday, not tomorrow. (Each of the three is roughly 4 minutes long, so if you want to watch them now, feel free.)
On Thursday, we’ll introduce our Q&A forum (Piazza), and I want to encourage you to feel free to request pencasts about specific topics. It can be a really nice way to answer questions, and at any point that you think one would be useful, please feel free to ask for one.
All of the pencasts (as well as other materials in the future) can be found in the Resources section of the site.
Just a few quick reminders for all of you:
The lab page reminds you of your reading for Tuesday and provides a link to the lab itself. (You should read that before you come in.)
I hope all is going well with your reading and exploration. Try installing Processing on your own computer, work your way through the first two chapters of Learning Processing, and we’ll start Tuesday off with Q&A, as I imagine you will have many questions. (That, by-the-way, is the way we expect things to go.)
Spring has roared in with… rain.
But we won’t let that get us down! Not at all! This is Meadville, and we’re Gators, and we like this weather!
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Dubious comments about the weather aside, welcome to our first offering of CMPSC 195: Media Computation. We expect it to be an exciting semester, and hope that you’re prepared to set aside some of your fears about computing (more than one of you have expressed your concern), and that you’re ready to discover, learn, and enjoy tackling new ideas and things that you didn’t know you could do.