Schedule Overview

Week 01 ︎ 09/02/2021 ︎

• Introductions & Expectations
• Introduction to Project: What’s on Top of the Deck?
• Introduction to Knitting Circle: Python pt.0, installing + testing
• Introduction to Viewing Party: Darmok
  
  
• HW︎

• Install Mu and get Circuit Python Express working. Upload a screenshot of Mu working and detecting the CPE and the CPE working.
  
• Complete Project: What’s on Top of the Deck?
• Watch and take notes on Darmok

Week 02 ︎09/09/2021 ︎

• Viewing party: work, alternative input systems
• Discussion for Viewing Party: Darmok
• Introduction to Project: Action at a Distance
• Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs


• HW ︎

• Start ideating/research for Project: Action at a Distance
• Complete and upload code and documentation for Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs

Week 03 ︎ 09/16/2021 ︎

• Spiel: GUI history + doors and handles
• Knitting Circle: Python pt.1, intro + lights + ifs
• Knitting Circle: Python pt.2, debugging, more ifs + more switches
  
  

Week 04 ︎ 09/23/2021 ︎

• Knitting Circle: Python pt.2, debugging, more ifs + more switches
• Individual check-ins: Python & Project: Action at a Distance
  
  
• HW︎︎︎

• Practice Python coding and review past examples
• Continue work on Project: Action at a Distance
  
  

Week 05 ︎ 09/30/2021 ︎

• Viewing Party: interfaces in games & fiction
• Knitting Circle: Python pt.3, working with other code & functions
  
• Individual check-ins and follow-ups: Python & Project: Action at a Distance

• HW︎︎︎

• Practice Python coding and review past examples
• Continue work on Project: Action at a Distance

Week 06 ︎ 10/07/2021 ︎

• “Dress rehearsal” Project: Action at a Distance

Week 07 ︎ 10/14/2021 ︎

• Show and Tell: Project: Action at a Distance
• Introduction to Project: Create an interface

Week 08 ︎ 10/21/2021 ︎

• Progress Check-in Project: Create an interface
• Spiel: Intro to UI / UX: Wireframing/sketching

Week 09 ︎ 10/28/2021 ︎

• (Costumes encouraged, if you wear a costume please wear a selfie and upload it, and you will receive extra credit)
• CPX Warm-up #1 ︎︎︎Lights
• Progress Check-in Project: Create an interface

Week 10 ︎ 11/04/2021 ︎

• CPX Warm-up #2
  
• Spiel: The importance of Users
• Progress Check-in Create an Interface
  

Week 11 ︎ 11/11/2021 ︎

• CPX Warm-up #3
  
• Introduction to Project: Create a Prototype
  
• Viewing Party: Jacolby Satterwhite
  
• Spiel: interfaces + ethics

Week 12 ︎ 11/18/2021 ︎

• CPX Warm-up #4
  
• Viewing Party: Maywa Denki
• Show and Tell: Create an Interface
  
• Create a Prototype: check-in

Week 13 ︎ 11/25/2021 ︎

• Thanksgiving recess (no class!)

Week 14 ︎ 12/02/2021 ︎

• Response readings: Create an Interface
  
• CPX Warm-up #5
  
• Spiel: interfaces + race
• Viewing Party: Alvin Lucier
  
• Show and Tell: Interface Interrogation
  
  

Week 15 ︎ 12/09/2021 ︎

• CPX Warm-up #6
• Create a Prototype: check-in
  
  

Week 16 ︎ 12/16/2021 ︎

• Create a Prototype: critiques
• Informal Class feedback
• Havdalah