B CUSP 110C – Digital Thinking:

Animation, Video Games, and the Social Web
Tuesday/Thursday 1:15pm – 3:15pm
Room: UW1-120

Kelvin Sung (ksung@u.washington.edu)

Important Links:

· Discussion Board: comments, questions, observations.

· Submission: drop box.

· Clip Art

Programming:

· Processing: download (scroll down to download from “Stable Releases”)

· Processing reference

· Drop in Lab: UW2-140 (Contact: IT@uwb.edu or 425-352-3456 for help with machines/printer in this lab)

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UWB Resources:

· Quantitative Skills Center (QSC)

· Writing Center

· UWB Library

· BCUSP110 Library Page

· Others (non-academic):

o CUSP home page

o Student Success Workshops

Final Videogames Students Build:

· Here are the final project videogames!

Administration:

· Here is the Syllabus.

· Your current standing in this class at this point.

· Here is your final score/grade for this class.

Fun Stuff:

· Interesting Applets we have so far …

Schedule:

Date	Lecture notes	Exercise (in class, due by 5pm on the day assigned)	Assignment (due before next class)
Week 1: 9/25	Introduction	Exercise 1: What I value Quiz 1: on Syllabus Email TA: to get your ID	Homework 1: Lightbot 2.0.
9/27	Lightbot 2.0 Practice Abstraction	Discussion: your values Quiz 2: on Lightbot programming	Homework 2: From bot to programs.
Week 2: 10/2	Digitization + CD ROM	Quiz 3: on functional abstraction and light bot Exercise 2: Your own website	Homework 3: Function + Moon walk
10/4	Color + Binary Numbers	Exercise 3: Binary Encoding (Cancelled)	Reading: Refer to discussion board Homework 4: Practice with Binary Numbers
Week 3: 10/9	Meet in: LB1-222 Student Success Services Privacy + Ethics		Homework 5: Research toolkit (Due by Wednesday, 10/10, midnight!! e-submit only) Privacy paper: Due next Tuesday (10/16)
10/11	Intro to Processing		Homework 7: Drawing with Processing
Week 4: 10/16	Exercise 3: Processing + Applets	Exercise 4: Binary Encoding	Readings: Chap 1 to 4 Homework 6: Simple Processing Applets
10/18	Processing with Variables	Exercise 5: Draw and Redraw	Homework 8: Working with Variables Here is Kelvin’s solution.
Week 5: 10/23	Data Types + Functions	Exercise 6: Functions for Owls	Homework 9: Complete Exercise6. Here is my solution.
10/25	Loops + Conditionals	Exercise 7: Loops and Conditionals	Homework 10: Complete Exercise 7. Here is my solution. Homework 9a: Functions and Loops. Here is my solution and for extra credit.
Week 6: 10/30	Mid-term review	Mid-term from last year
11/1	Mid-term exam
Week 7: 11/6	Mid-Term return Loops + Conditionals Catch up	Exercise: Start Homework 10.	Homework 10: Here is my solution.
11/8	Processing Input/Output	Exercise: Work on Homework 11.	Homework 11: Be creative!
Week 8: 11/13	Quiz on Functions + Loops Computation Complexity	Exercise 9/HW12: Simple Block Breaker	Final Project: Find your partner and email Jack your group members
11/15	Algorithm Design AI	In-class: Final Project paper design	Final Project: Paper Design
Week 9: 11/20	Instruction Execution	Due beginning of class: Final project paper design	Final Project: Software Design
11/22	Thanksgiving: no class.
Week 10: 11/27	Networking and DNS	Due beginning of class: Final project software design	Final Project: The system!
11/29	Kelvin in DC (NSF Panelist) No class!!	Work on your final project!!
Week 11: 12/4	WWW: Search + Tag
12/6	Catch-up Final Exam Review	Due beginning of class: Final project implementation
12/11	Final Exam: Meet in same classroom, same class time on Tuesday.

Other Stuff:

· Here is the course web-site from last year (we used XNA instead of Processing from this year).

· Final exam result distribution:

· Mid-term exam distribution:

Here is what we did in Fall 2011:

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