Intermediate Studio: Creative Coding

Catalog description

Intermediate Studio: Creative Coding ( 60-212 ) is a practical introduction to the use of programming and computation within the context of the arts. In this intermediate level course, students develop or deepen the skills and confidence to produce interactive, generative, and computational artworks; discuss their work in relation to current and historic praxes of computer art; and critically engage new technologies. This is a "studio art course in computer science", in which our objective is art and design, but our medium is student-written software. Intended for arts students who have already completed at least one semester of elementary programming (in any language), this class develops craft skills in arts-engineering using a variety of creative coding toolkits. Through rigorous programming exercises in these environments, students will develop mastery over the basic vocabulary of constructs that govern static, dynamic, and interactive form, with the aim of applying these skills to problems in interactive art, computational design, and other creative explorations of transmediality, connectivity, generativity, and immersivity. Prerequisites: 15-104 or 15-112 or 15-110