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Interactive Prototyping

Painters have brushes, sculptors have chisels. As a designer working with interactivity, what do you have? This intermediate studio class will focus on building up your toolkit with useful software snippets, techniques, and modules. We will then use these tools to rapidly develop the kinds of applications you want to create. Working individually, you will take pieces of code, reassemble them, and “glue” them together for new work. Through brief lectures, guided tutorials, and in-class lab sessions, you will achieve the skills needed to spend less time struggling with code and more time working through your own concepts and projects. Some knowledge of code is helpful, though no specific language is required: the class will be taught with Java/Processing and Python, but the concepts behind the code should be useful anywhere.

Feel free to contribute to this Wiki for your own needs or to help out your classmates.

Resources

• Syllabus
• Blackboard site

Tasks

Here are some of the tasks coming up in the near future:

• Working with Android
• Setting up Eclipse
• Installing SubVersioN on Eclipse
• Creating User-experience sketches
• Investigating useful Design patterns in your work
• Getting Django up and running using Python