Foundation Programming

Introduction

Aims

• This course aims to give students a basic understanding of computer programming.

• On completing this course students should have the necessary skills to be able to design, build and test a small system in a high-level language (processing).

Learning outcomesOn completion of this course, students should be able to: • To understand basic programming concepts and constructs such as

strings numbers, assignments, sequential and selective executions, loops and functions.

• Write short programs that use the fundamental program constructs

including standard conditional and iterative control structures. • Write simple graphics programs involving the drawing of basic shapes. • Write basic animation programs.

Syllabus• Writing and running a program• Statements• Drawing programs• Variables• Fundamental data types• Animation in software• Interactive Programs• Callbacks• Functions• Conditionals• Loops• Arrays• Programs using images, audio and video media

Teaching

• 2 hours lecture on Friday • 2 hours lab on Monday

Assessment

• Term 1– 1 assignment 20 %– 5 small challenges worth 1% each

• Term 2– 1 assignment 20 %– 5 small challenges worth 1% each

• Examination (50%) written examination

Language - Processing

• The Processing Language was designed to facilitate the creation of sophisticated visual structures.

• Processing reference page is on http://processing.org/reference/

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• Processing can be downloaded from http://processing.org/download

Getting started with ProcessingTutorial

http://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted/

Reading List

• Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction.http://www.learningprocessing.com/

• Getting Started with Processing Casey Reas

and Ben Fry.Published June 2010, O'Reilly Media.

Processing development Environment

Type your code here

Click here to run your programStop your program

Click here to saveNew sketch

Exampleyour first program

• Type the following code on the text editor– ellipse(60, 60, 100, 100);– Click on

– The display window will display

online material

• http://www.learningprocessing.com/

• Getting started with processing book