About this course: This course is for anyone who would like to apply their technical skills to creative work ranging from video games to art installations to interactive music, and also for artists who would like to use programming in their artistic practice. This course will teach you how to develop and apply programming skills to creative work. This is an important skill within the development of creative mobile applications, digital music and video games. It will teach the technical skills needed to write software that make use of images, audio and graphics, and will concentrate on the application of these skills to creative projects. Additional resources will be provided for students with no programming background. At the end of this course, you will be able to: * Write creative, audiovisual programs in the Processing environment that run on desktop and mobile * Programatically manipulate sound in creative ways * Display images and image sequences * Generate interactive, algorithmic graphics * Work with a 2D physics engine to create a basic game

Created by: University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London

Taught by: Dr Marco Gillies, Senior Lecturer
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
Taught by: Dr Matthew Yee-King, Lecturer
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
Taught by: Dr Mick Grierson, Reader
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Language	English, Subtitles: Kazakh
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
User Ratings	4.7 stars Average User Rating 4.7See what learners said

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Sonic Painter

This week we are getting up and running with the Processing IDE. We will show you the basics of writing Processing sketches then move onto some graphics and audio concepts. Mick will then introduce our first audiovisual example - SonicPainter, which allows use...

11 videos, 4 readings, 5 practice quizzes

Graded: Sonic Painter

Graded: Set up Processing

WEEK 2

DJTube

This week we are looking at using images and video, and also finding out how to control sound more fully in an interactive way. We're going to be showing you a really basic interactive VJ/DJ app called 'DJTube', which is a very simple example of how to create ...

8 videos, 2 readings, 4 practice quizzes

Graded: DJTube

WEEK 3

Audio Visualiser

This week is all about creating an Audiovisualiser. This is a really popular and interesting topic that has lots of applications, from music players, to game engines, to more complex things such as DSP. We'll be learning about algorithmic graphics, audio analy...

8 videos, 2 readings, 5 practice quizzes

Graded: 3: Parameterised visualisation

Graded: Customise one of the examples

WEEK 4

AngryDroids

This week we will be creating a physics based game using a Physics engine based on Box2D. Physics engines are a fantastic way of creating dynamic gameplay that models the real world. Box2D is one of the most popular because it is optimised to be fast for 2D ga...

9 videos, 2 readings, 5 practice quizzes

Graded: AngryDroids

WEEK 5

Music Machine

Welcome to the final week of Creative Programming for Digital Media and Mobile apps. This week, we are going to move back to one of our favorite areas of app development - music apps. We have a very special guest this week - Martin Roth from RJDJ. Martin has l...

6 videos, 1 reading, 3 practice quizzes

Graded: Music Machine Quiz

Graded: Customise AngryDroids or MusicMachine

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Ratings and Reviews

Rated 4.7 out of 5 of 20 ratings

Having so much fun programming with processing, the programming concepts and animation is simple to understand with this programming environment

Awesome course. It's packed with tons of information on how to get started making cool interactive programs, especially if you are a music junkie like myself. Great work!

It was very useful for me.

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Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps

Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps

Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps