Creative Computing I: introduction to programming

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• test a range of ideas whilst experimenting with techniques and processes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the fundamental principles, processes and methods core to your discipline

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan strategies to evolve your digital skills in line with your discipline’s expectations

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate ideas through enquiry and analysis of selected research material

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• problem-solving skills to solve well-specified problems in the creation of computational artefacts

The programming languages and platforms will vary from year to year, as will the set exercises and experiments. However they might include designing a game using block-programming, front-end web coding, the manipulation and animation of visual data.

The emphasis throughout will be for you to grasp some key principles of computing and to apply them in creative and experimental ways.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will include workshop tuition in key platforms and languages, and you will learn through a series of hands-on exercises that will be guided and supported by staff but will allow plenty of scope for your own creative input. A workshop-based and collaborative ethos will be encouraged, with peer learning and the encouragement of risk and experimentation.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Levin, Golan & Brain, Tega (2021). Code as a Creative Medium: a handbook for computational art and design. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Boden, Margaret (2018). Artificial Intelligence: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Winfield, Alan (2012). Robotics: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class Exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.