DM-GY 6063
Creative Coding
Fall 2023, Section D

Weekly Schedule

Week 01 (2023/09/06)

Review Syllabus
Introductions
Presentation: What is Programming?
Presentation: What is p5.js?
Setting up a local dev environment and GitHub

Class Materials:

Recommended Videos:

How Transistors Do Math: [1]
Git: [1]
Signing up for GitHub: [1]
Creating a GitHub Organization: [1]
Setup GitHub Desktop App: [1]
Start a Project from a Template: [1]
Installing VSCode plugins: [1]
Cloning and Commiting using The GitHub App: [1]
Cloning and Commiting using VSCode: [1]

Homework 01 | due: 2023/09/13 by 1PM

Week 02 (2023/09/13)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Presentation: Math Review

p5.js:

Functions and Variables
Pixels and Canvas
Drawing Functions
Transforms

Class Materials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 1 - 4, 6): [1]
p5.js Documentation: [1]

Recommended Videos:

Git: [1]
Cloning and Committing using The GitHub App: [1]
Cloning and Committing using VSCode: [1]
Canvas and Drawings: [1]
Colors: [1]
Transforms: [1]

Homework 02 | due: 2023/09/20 by 1PM

Week 03 (2023/09/20)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Presentation: Git & Markdown

p5.js:

Loops and Conditionals
Variation and Randomness

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 4): [1]

Recommended Videos:

Conditionals: [1]
Loops: [1] [2]
Random: [1]

Homework 03 | due: 2023/09/27 by 1PM

Week 04 (2023/09/27)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Presentation: Pseudo-code

p5.js:

Transforms and Functions
Mouse and Events
Time, Movement and Animation
Cycles

Class Materials:

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 5, 6, 8, 9): [1]

Recommended Videos:

Functions: [1] [2]
Transforms: [1] [2]
Mouse Events: [1]
Animation: [1] [2]
map(): [1] [2] [3]

Homework 04 | due: 2023/10/04 by 1PM

Week 05 (2023/10/04)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading

p5.js:

State
Arrays
Objects
Data and CSV and JSON

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 10 - 12): [1]

Recommended Videos:

Arrays: [1] [2] [3]
Objects: [1]
Data: [1]
JSON: [1] [2] [3]

Homework 05 | due: 2023/10/11 by 1PM

Week 06 (2023/10/11)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading

p5.js:

Objects
Text and Strings

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 7.9 - 7.13, 10): [1]
Introducing JavaScript Objects: [1]

Recommended Videos:

Objects: [1] [2] [3]

Homework 06 | due: 2023/10/18 by 1PM

Week 07 (2023/10/18)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading

p5.js:

More Classes
Images and Pixel Array

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

p5.js's Field Guide To Debugging: [1]
Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 7.1 - 7.8): [1]
IDM's Image Processing Tutorial: [1]

Recommended Videos:

A Brief Introduction to Debugging: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Pixel Array: [1]
Images: [1]
Video Capture: [1]

Homework 07 | due: 2023/10/25 by 1PM

Week 08 (2023/10/25)

Midterm Presentations

p5.js:

The DOM
Sound Files

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with p5js (Chapters 13): [1]
Jason Sigal's Visualizing Music: [1]

Recommended Videos:

DOM: [1]
Sound: [1] [2] [3]

Homework 08 | due: 2023/11/01 by 1PM

Week 09 (2023/11/01)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading

p5.js:

Noise
Libraries
Image and Audio Processing

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Videos:

Noise: [1] [2] [3]
RiTa Library: [1]
ml5.js Object Detection: [1]
ml5.js PoseNet: [1]

Homework 09 | due: 2023/11/08 by 1PM

Week 10 (2023/11/08)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Presentation: Intro to Electronics

Arduino:

Setting up
Outputs: Analog and Digital

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Sparkfun's Electronics Tutorial: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Setting Up The Arduino IDE: [1]
Getting Started with the Nano ESP32: [1] [2]

Recommended Videos:

Electricity: [1] [2]
Outputs: [1] [2]

Homework 10 | due: 2023/11/15 by 1PM

Week 11 (2023/11/15)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Analog and Digital signals
Finite-State Machines

Arduino:

Serial
Inputs: Analog and Digital

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Getting Started with the Nano ESP32: [1] [2]

Recommended Videos:

Digital Input: [1] [2]
Analog Input and Serial Port: [1]

Homework 11 | due: 2023/11/29 by 1PM

Week 12 (2023/11/29)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
More C++ Quirks
Processing Analog Signals

Arduino:

Average Filtering
Communicating with p5js

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Recommended Readings:

Serial Communication: [1]
An overview of HTTP: [1]
HTTP Server with the ESP32: [1]
Bluetooth and p5.ble: [1] [2] [3]

Recommended Videos:

Arduino + p5js Serial Communication: [1]
WiFi: Arduino HTTP Server: [1]
WiFi: p5js HTTP Client: [1]
BLE Intro: [1]

Homework 12 | due: 2023/12/06 by 1PM

Week 13 (2023/12/06)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading

p5.js:

More Sound Library

Arduino:

Communicating with p5js

Class Materials:

Slides
Code

Tutorials:

Sound Processing

Recommended Readings:

Sound Library Documentation: [1]
Jason Sigal's Visualizing Music: [1]

Recommended Videos:

The Coding Train Sound Tutorials: [1]

Homework 13 | due: 2023/12/13 by 1PM

Week 14 (2023/12/13)

Review Assignment
Discuss Reading
Guest Speaker
Final Project preview, feedback and adjustments

Homework 14 | due: 2023/12/20 by 1PM