1. Foundation Programming Introduction

2. Aims This course aims to give students a basic understanding of computer programming. On completing this course students should have the necessary skills to be able to design, build and test a small system in a high-level language (processing).

3. Learning outcomes On completion of this course, students should be able to: To understand basic programming concepts and constructs such as strings numbers, assignments, sequential and selective executions, loops and functions. Write short programs that use the fundamental program constructs including standard conditional and iterative control structures. Write simple graphics programs involving the drawing of basic shapes. Write basic animation programs.

4. Syllabus Writing and running a program Statements Drawing programs Variables Fundamental data types Animation in software Interactive Programs Callbacks Functions Conditionals Loops Arrays Programs using images, audio and video media

5. Teaching 2 hours lecture on Friday 2 hours lab on Monday

6. Assessment Term 1 – 1 assignment 20 % – 5 small challenges worth 1% each Term 2 – 1 assignment 20 % – 5 small challenges worth 1% each Examination (50%) written examination

7. Language - Processing The Processing Language was designed to facilitate the creation of sophisticated visual structures. Processing reference page is on http://processing.org/reference/

8. Download process 2 Processing can be downloaded from http://processing.org/download http://processing.org/download

9. Getting started with Processing Tutorial http://processing.org/tutorials/gettingstarted/

10. Reading List Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction. http://www.learningprocessing.com/ Getting Started with Processing Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Published June 2010, O'Reilly Media.

11. Processing development Environment Type your code here Click here to run your program Stop your program Click here to save New sketch

12. Example your first program Type the following code on the text editor – ellipse(60, 60, 100, 100); – Click on – The display window will display

13. online material http://www.learningprocessing.com/ Getting started with processing book