===== Intro to IM =====
**Place:** Inside the teaching lab that is hidden somewhere deep in the Arts Center\\
**Time:** Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 2:40pm – 5:20pm 

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=== Forword ===
  * Checking attendance
  * Felix's Photobook
  * [[http://tinyurl.com/z6xmzcf|Languages]]!
  * Review Homeworks:
     * Everyone show their stuff.
     * Any difficulties, insights?
     * Discuss printing the work!
  * Discuss Open Studios (November 8th – Intro will have a table to show work. Any projects still functional?)

=== Functions & Objects ===

== Functions ==
    * Main concept: programmers are lazy. 
    * Unofficially: functions are a way to help programmers in their laziness. A **reusable chunk of code**. Less typing = good!
    * Officially: "a named section of a program that performs a specific task. In this sense, a function is a type of procedure or routine." 
    * Functions are **declared** somewhere, and then **called** somewhere else.
    * **Scopes** (in processing, {})
    * return value (void, int, bool);
    * In Class assignment: Make a "Felix Broken Screen" using functions

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//The above pictures show Felix laptop after it fell down...// ([[felix_laptop_crash_sketches|Some examples of student projects.]])

== Objects ==
    * Metaphysical idea of something (the **Class**), from which we can create actual things (the **Object**). EG: 
      * What makes a person?
        * Data: Height
        * Function: Movement? How do we see them?
        * In class assignment: Create a person Class, and several people objects.
      * We can clean up the code by using different tabs

=== Assignment ===
  - Make a screenshot of your artwork (the assignment that you showed in todays class) __and__ the accompanying inspiration, and upload it via NYU Classes.
  - If possible fill in your name [[http://www.felix-beck.de/nyuad/teaching/doku.php?id=intro_to_im_11-08-16|here]]
  - Make a visual art piece OR game to display at the Open Studio.
    * It must be 1200x1200px
    * Accommodate 2 "interactors", who will use WASD and the Arrow keys respectively.
    * Since it's projected from above, it must be viewable from all sides
    * If you need inspiration look at the works of Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Dan Shiffman