Week 1 - 09/02/21

Intro

  1. Professor background in creative coding
    1. Project based, exploration, interaction, creative tools,
    2. HCI - computer and user feedback loop of interaction
  2. What apps and software you have used a lot as tools
  3. Code of Conduct
  4. Venn Diagram of:
    1. Interface Interaction
      1. How do we build interactive apps
      2. What makes is hard
      3. How can we listen to the computer and have a healthy collaboration
    2. Tool Design
      1. What makes a tool good or bad
      2. What can the relationship between me and tool look like?
      3. How can we have digital reflections of reality
    3. Phone, Art, Culture
      1. Medium ins the message
      2. We shape our tools and our tools shape us
  5. Web-based Apps
    1. Easily share, open source
    2. web is punk
  6. Caveats
    1. Building interfaces is tricky
    2. Prof doesn't have a formal design background
    3. Perspective of creative internet culture is Western
  7. Class Routine
    1. Videos
    2. Slack
    3. Office Hours
    4. Coffee Hours
      1. Group conversation, questions and hang out

Week 2 - 09/09/21

Live Coding

  1. Code Sandbox
  2. DOM Visualizer
  3. Coding (computer) Interaction
    1. input
    2. compute
    3. output
  4. Human Interaction
    1. senses
    2. thought
    3. motion