This seminar series covers the history, theory and practice of working with technology and its relevance for design in contemporary contexts and in future scenarios. In the first semester the course is closely tied to Programming Basics, covering many aspects of programming.
The programming tutorials can be found here: Programming
Participation in class discussions, completion of homework exercise, 80% Attendance
Exam - Your programming knowledge will be tested after the reading week
| Week 1 (25.09.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.T08 Introduction to Bits and Atoms. Introduction Lecture: Bits_And_Atoms Hello World Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgupE9snZlQ |
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Week 2 (02.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.T09 |
| Week 3 (09.10.2017) 8:30 - 10:30 | 5.D02 (install processing before class) Topics Covered: Homework: Complete "Exercise 3", as shown at the bottom of the "Events and Functions" page. |
| Week 4 (16.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.T09 Topics Covered: Writing our own Functions (en) Homework: Complete "Exercise 5", as shown at the bottom of the "Conditionals" page. |
| Week 5 (23.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.D12 Topics Covered: Homework: Complete exercises 6 and and 7 |
| Week 6 (30.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.T06 |
| Week 7 (06.11.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 4.T06 Readings: Play and Intrinsic Rewards by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, or view online here. Optional readings: |
| Reading week (13.11.2017) | No class |
| Week 8 (20.11.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 5.D02 Mentoring Session |
| Week 9 (27.11.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 5.T04 Visual Progamming |
| Week 10 (4.12.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 5.K03 (Exam: covers coding knowledge (both from programming basics and Bits and Atoms)) |
| Week 11 (12.12.2017) 10:30 - 12:30 | 5.D02 Digital Fabrication Software: |