Programming for Interactivity

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Programming for Interactivity

• Professor Bill Tomlinson
• Tuesday Wednesday
• 600-750pm
• Fall 2005

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Questions Any Time
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If I Talk Too Fast

• Raise your hand and/or ask me to slow down.

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Introductions
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What Use Is Computer Programming?

• Make real-time moving pictures
• Keep track of information
• Run a web site
• Make motors turn
• Process words
• Make your cell phone work
• Others?

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Programming Experience?

• 1 Never written a line of code in my life
• 2 BASIC Programming 20 years ago, made a web
  page or two
• 3 Self-taught basic coding skills, or took one
  or two classes in it
• 4 Fairly proficient self-taught significant
  programming skills or CS major
• 5 You can read about my hacking skills in the
  NY Times

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Overview of Course

• Class meetings
• Tues Weds, 600-750pm
• Four assignments
• Graphics
• Sound
• Input
• Networking
• Final Project
• (last four weeks)

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Goals

• Learn how to write computer programs
• Learn how to evaluate and adopt new programming
  tools
• Make several projects
• Begin collaborations

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Syllabus

• Hand out
• Walk through
• Questions?

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Scheduling

• Tuesday / Wednesday
• or
• Tuesday / Thursday

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Computers

• Lab computers
• Your own computers
• Java Development Kit
• Eclipse
• Who plans to uselab computersvs.
  personallaptops, etc.?

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Assignment for Tomorrow

• Lynn Steins online book

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Other Resources

• Bill
• Google
• Suns web site
• Each other

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Questions

• ?

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Somebody programmed Google.