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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 progaming tutorials programming tutorials can be found here:  ProgrammingPB

Deliverables 

Participation in class discussions, completion of homework exercise, 80% Attendance

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Schedule 


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

Week 2 (02.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30

4.T08T09

Little-bits logic Exercises

Week 3 (09.10.2017)  108:30 - 1210:30

5.D02 (install processing before class)

Topics Covered:

Starting with Processing (en)

Variables (en)

Events und Functions (en)

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

.T08

.T09

Topics Covered:

Writing our own Functions (en)

Conditionals (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:

Loops (en)

Nested Loops (en)

Homework: Complete exercises 6 and and 7 

Week 6 (30.10.2017) 10:30 - 12:30

4.

T08

T06

Classes and Objects (en)

Week 7 (06.11.2017)  1010:30 - 12:30

4

.T08

.T06 

Readings: Play and Intrinsic Rewards by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, or view online here

Optional readings:

http://eweaver.myweb.usf.edu/2002-Flow.pdf

http://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/JBA.2.2013.005

Reading week (13.11.2017) No class
Week 8 (20.11.2017) 10:30 - 12:305.D02 D02 Mentoring Session
Week 9 (27.11.2017) 10:30 - 12:305.T04 Visual Progamming 
Week 10 (4.12.2017) 10:30 - 12:305.D02 K03 (Exam: covers coding knowledge (both from programming basics and Bits and Atoms))
Week 10 11 (412.12.2017) 10:30 - 12:30

5.D02

Week 11 (12.12.2017) 10:30 - 12:305.D02

Digital Fabrication 

Software:

https://www.tinkercad.com/

https://www.rhino3d.com/download

https://ultimaker.com/en/products/ultimaker-cura-software