Creative Coding

Online Course Highlights

New York University via Edx
Learn for FREE, Up-gradable
Length: 14 Weeks
Effort: 8–10 hours per week
Skill Level: Mixed
Language: English

In Creative Coding, students learn to design and create media using object-oriented programming as a medium for design, art, and games.

With a strong focus on creating interactive experiences for the web, the course moves past the sequential problem solving found in typical beginner programming and coding courses, so that designers and creatives can apply programming concepts to work in a variety of media, such as 2D graphics, animation, image and video processing. By the end of this course, students will be able to read and write javascript for creative and design applications.

Whether you are a graphic designer, UX/UI designer, web designer, or accessibility designer, this course will arm you with fundamental coding skills using javascript and other languages as a method of expression.

What you’ll learn

The fundamentals of computational thinking applied through p5.js
Best practices for designing software within an event-driven, object-oriented, real time framework
How to ideate, conceptualize, and design original creative works in the medium of software
Cultural literacy of the computational arts by critically engaging with historic and contemporary practices
Personal learning strategies, project planning and problem solving skills

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to the class. Basics of 2D Drawing
Week 2: Variables and Conditionals
Week 3: Looping and Repetition
Week 4: Color
Week 5: Functions and Interaction with the Keyboard and Mouse
Week 6: Transformation and Translation
Week 7: Harmonic Motion and Animation
Week 8: Object-Oriented Programming
Week 9: The Document Object Model (DOM)
Week 10: Generative Text and Typography: An Introduction to the RiTa Addon for p5.js
Week 11: Data Visualization and APIs
Week 12: Image
Week 13: Video
Week 14: Final Project Submission

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