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• Critical Coding Cookbook
• Programming Design Systems - Online Book
• The Art of Computer Designing
• Code as Creative Medium
  • Available through Aalto
• Generative Gestaltung
• Nature of Code
• Awesome Creative Coding

Content

This course introduces creative coding not just as a tool but also as a creative medium in itself. The course consists of joint lectures for all students and additional excercise groups that students choose based on their previous experience, skill level, and interests.

Topics covered in the course:

• Historical and contemporary examples of computational art and design
• The role of computation in interactive, generative, and immersive artworks
• Fundamental computational thinking
• Data types and structures
• Flow control statements (loops, conditional execution)
• Basics of object-oriented programming
• Best practices (commenting, formatting, structuring)

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Apply their technical knowledge and skills in computational art and design to create artworks, experiences, services, tools, and other creative productions.
• Apply basic programming concepts and techniques, such as variables, functions, flow control, comments, types, objects and arrays.
• Describe, discuss, and demonstrate uses of code as a creative medium.

Schedule | Autumn 2023

Period I

Week 1 | Introduction

TIME	MON 04/09	TUE 05/09	WED 06/09	THU 07/09	FRI 08/09
09:15–12:00				Drawing with Code	Animating with Code
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: Introduction

Week 2 | If This Then That

TIME	MON 11/09	TUE 12/09	WED 13/09	THU 14/09	FRI 15/09
09:15–12:00				Conditional Statements	Conditional Statements
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: History of programming

Week 3 | Loops & Arrays

TIME	MON 18/09	TUE 19/09	WED 20/09	THU 21/09	FRI 22/09
09:15–12:00				Loops	Arrays
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: Interactive art

Week 4 | Working with Media

TIME	MON 25/09	TUE 26/09	WED 27/09	THU 28/09	FRI 29/09
09:15–12:00				Working with Media	Sound Visualizations
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: Generative art and design

Week 5 | Functions

TIME	MON 03/10	TUE 04/10	WED 05/10	THU 06/10	FRI 07/10
09:15–12:00				Functions	Functions
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: Hard and soft ware

Week 6 | Objects & Classes

TIME	MON 09/10	TUE 10/10	WED 11/10	THU 12/10	FRI 13/10
09:15–12:00				Objects & Classes	Objects & Classes
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: AI/Machine Learning in Art and Media

Week 7 (Workshop week)

TIME	MON 16/10	TUE 17/10	WED 18/10	THU 19/10	FRI 20/10
09:15–12:00
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Period II

Week 8

TIME	MON 23/10	TUE 24/10	WED 25/10	THU 26/10	FRI 27/10
09:15–12:00				Advanced Animation	DOM Elements
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Week 9

TIME	MON 30/10	TUE 31/10	WED 01/11	THU 02/11	FRI 03/11
09:15–12:00				Working with Data	Working with Data | FFT
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Week 10

TIME	MON 06/11	TUE 07/11	WED 08/11	THU 09/11	FRI 10/11
09:15–12:00				Introduction to other creative coding environments: Processing	Introduction to other creative coding environments: TouchDesigner, Project Proposals Deadline
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Week 11

TIME	MON 13/11	TUE 14/11	WED 15/11	THU 16/11	FRI 17/11
09:15–12:00				Working with Hardware (serial, OSC)	Machine learning with ml5.js
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Week 12

TIME	MON 20/11	TUE 21/11	WED 22/11	THU 23/11	FRI 24/11
09:15–12:00				3D | Project Work and Tutoring	Project Work and Tutoring
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00

Week 13

TIME	MON 27/11	TUE 28/11	WED 29/11	THU 30/12	FRI 01/12
09:15–12:00				Project Work and Tutoring	Project Work and Tutoring
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00	Lecture: AI/ML & Art

Week 14 (Workshop Week)

TIME	MON 04/12	TUE 05/12	WED 06/12	THU 09/12	FRI 08/12
09:15–12:00
12:00–13:00	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕	🥗🍜🍱🍝🍕
13:15–15:00
15:15–17:00