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Next week

• Continue compiling background notes for Assignment 3 and Assignment 4
• Prepare your questions for next week’s lecture time
  (From here on, there’ll be less time for actual lecture and more time to help you.)

Things to do this week

• Arrive promptly at 1pm for the Tuesday guest lecture by the acclaimed author and code artist, Dr Mitchell Whitelaw.
• Complete Exercise 4
• Write short programs to experiment with ideas for Assignment 3
• Continue your research for the final assignment,
  making notes on your process

And, if you didn’t do it last week…

• Complete Exercise 3
• Put a suitable index.html in your public_html so this it presents you in a good light
• Study the requirements for the Assignments (a quick skim won't do!)
• Work out a timetable for completing the assignments
  (Leaving things to the last moment simply won’t work in this course!)

•       *** Have fun ***
  
  All the hard work is over.
• Put the date and time of the the exhibition in your diary and keep that day free
• Load your website for Assignment 4 into your DCS webspace and check that everything is working,
  including the Java applet(s)
• Check you have all the requirements covered for Assignment 4
• Hand in all parts of Assignment 4 before the deadline
• Get feedback from friends on your work in progress—
  check that the work expresses your ideas about Dust to Dust
  without additional explanation
• Complete the compilation of your background notes for Assignment 4
• Design the website for Assignment 4
• Work out a timetable for completing Assignment 4 before the deadline
• Prepare your own questions and activities for the next lab
• Carry out your own research and experimentation for Assignment 4
• Check that you know what not to bring to the quiz
• While you work on Assignment 3, keep checking the reminders for coders
• While you work on Assignment 4, keep checking the debugging tips
• Study the requirements for the quiz
• Carefully study the requirements for Assignment 3
• Hand in Assignment 3 before the deadline
• Make a note to check this page next week for important information about the quiz
• Prepare your own questions and activities for this week’s lab
  (From here on, there’ll be less time for exercises and more time to help you.)
• Revise the CSS, HTML and DOM exercises.
• Complete Assignment 2
• Study some of the References
• Complete Exercise 2
• Carefully study the requirements for Assignment 2
• Develop and refine your ideas for Assignment 1 Part 3
• Write the program for Assignment 2
• Complete Assignment 1 Part 3
• Write short programs to experiment with ideas for Assignment 2
• Study the requirements for the Assignments 4 and 1 (a quick skim won't do!)
• Continue your research for Assignment 1 Part 3
• Complete Exercise 1
• Make notes on the feedback you received on your Assignment 1 ideas
• Make sure you’re available at your allotted time next week (12–14 Oct) for the quiz

  Please note that there aren’t enough places at the most popular times. If you’re not at your preferred time, I’ll do my best to change your lab time when a place is available. You must attend at your allotted time for the the quiz (Week 11) .

• Upload your Scintillating Pixels program as a Java applet in your DCS webspace
• Complete Exercise 0
• Work through the examples in the textbook
• Study the requirements for the Assignments 4 and 1 (a quick skim won't do!)
  and prepare your questions for the next lecture time
• Visit the exhibition Present Tense at the National Portrait Gallery,
  it’s a survey of ideas from the past 15 years of art in the digital age
• Investigate the example programs supplied with Processing
• Download the PDE template and experiment on your own
• Work out a timetable for completing the assignments.
  (Leaving things to the last moment simply won’t work in this course!)
• Begin studying the textbook
• Buy a copy of the textbook
• Bookmark this page (it has links to most things you’ll need to find)
• Sign up for a lab time (labs started in Week 2)
• Submit an entry to the Scintillating Pixels contest
• Update your profile in Wattle
• Buy a copy of the textbook
• Download the PDE template and experiment on your own
• Download a copy of Processing
• Install Processing on your own computer
• Update your profile in Wattle

Labs

• What labs are for
• Learning Linux
• Processing exercises
• CSS & HTML
• Web design revision
• Using your DCS webspace

Lectures

• Processing
• What is art?
• Recordings and notes
  in Wattle
• Orbits
• The significance of code
• How to miss lectures

Admin

• Timetable
• Wattle

Assessment

• Summary
• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• The quiz
• Assignment 4

Resources

• References
• Why programming
• Why Processing
• How to pass the course
• Coding dos and donts
• Art dos and donts
• Debugging tips
• Colour
• File sizes for the Web
• Media Suite—scanners &c

Fun

• Scintillating Pixels
• Pages by your peers
• Exhibition