Programming Digital Media

Making and modifying digital media
by writing custom software for Mac OS X

Class	Lecture	Tutorials	Resources
January 29 Orientation	Class software installation	Installation Text editors	Instructor background
February 5 Theory	Class overview Fundamental programming concepts Introduction to Python	Basic Unix shell commands Class directory structure Beginning Python	Programming histories Bash tutorial
February 12 Image	Programming paradigms Models of digital imagery Digital image structure	Pixels Filters	Python tutorial 1 Python tutorial 2
February 19 Animation	Graphical programming systems Procedural shapes Animation of procedural parameters	Quartz Composer Shapes Animation	The Quartz/Python interface Python strings Making Python scripts Python tutorial 3 An introduction to PostScript Mixing Python and PostScript
February 26 Sound	Digital sound synthesis Procedural Music Composition and Engraving (Doug Barrett)	Sound synthesis with Csound Procedural music notation	Csound An introduction to spectral music MIDI tutorial MIDI specification SuperCollider Simplifying Python script arguments Extracting JPEG headers