Intro CS Assignments
Assignments by week:
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Spring Term:
Thursday, September 6
Description
Introduction and Welcome
Homework
  • Bookmark this page.
  • Read The Beginner's Creed. We will discuss this in class tomorrow.
  • Download and install Processing from Managed Software Center. If you are off-campus and unable to get it this way, you may download it directly from the Processing web site (we're using the latest release as of this writing, 3.4).
  • Start Processing and choose About Processing from its menu. Send me an e-mail naming the creators of the software who are named in that window.
  • Read over the course syllabus. Bring any questions you have with you to class tomorrow.
Friday, September 7
Description
How Computers Compute; Introduction to Processing
Homework
  • Read Coordinate Systems and Shapes on processing.org.
  • Create a processing sketch that draws one of each of the four primitive shape types on the screen (place them so you can see all four!). You don't need to send it to me (yet); we'll go over that in class.
  • During the next class, be ready to answer the following questions:
    • What are cartesian coordinates?
    • How do computer graphics coordinates differ from cartesian coordinates?
    • What are three ways to draw/define a rectangle?