Creative Coding

This course is a part of Integrated Digital Media, a 4-course MicroMasters series from edX.

In Creative Coding, students learn to design and create media using object-oriented programming as a medium for design, art, and games. With a strong focus on creating interactive experiences for the web, the course moves past the sequential problem solving found in typical beginner programming and coding courses, so that designers and creatives can apply programming concepts to work in a variety of media, such as 2D graphics, animation, image and video processing. By the end of this course, students will be able to read and write javascript for creative and design applications. Whether you are a graphic designer, UX/UI designer, web designer, or accessibility designer, this course will arm you with fundamental coding skills using javascript and other languages as a method of expression.

What you'll learn

• The fundamentals of computational thinking applied through p5.js
• Best practices for designing software within an event-driven, object-oriented, real time framework
• How to ideate, conceptualize, and design original creative works in the medium of software
• Cultural literacy of the computational arts by critically engaging with historic and contemporary practices
• Personal learning strategies, project planning and problem solving skills
• Week 1: Introduction to the class. Basics of 2D Drawing
• Week 2: Variables and Conditionals
• Week 3: Looping and Repetition
• Week 4: Color
• Week 5: Functions and Interaction with the Keyboard and Mouse
• Week 6: Transformation and Translation
• Week 7: Harmonic Motion and Animation
• Week 8: Object-Oriented Programming
• Week 9: The Document Object Model (DOM)
• Week 10: Generative Text and Typography: An Introduction to the RiTa Addon for p5.js
• Week 11: Data Visualization and APIs
• Week 12: Image
• Week 13: Video
• Week 14: Final Project Submission