CSC151.02 2015S, Class 40: On Two-Dimensional Design
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* New Partners!
* Welcome to the admitted students who are visiting campus.

_Overview_

* Preliminaries.
    * Admin.
    * Upcoming Work.
    * Extra Credit.
    * Questions.
* Fun with admitted students.
* Quiz.
* Background: About the project.
* Some examples.
* General elements of design.
* Relationships between elements.
* Broader design principles.
* Some examples.

Preliminaries
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### Admin

* Food!
* Review session tonight at 7pm.
* It's prereg time.  Think about taking 161 in the fall!
* Congratulations to all the students who performed in ISO on Saturday.
  I hear that it was spectacular.
* This week we'll start thinking about your projects.

### Upcoming Work

* Readings for Tuesday: 
     * [Project Ideas: Color Trees, Revisited](../readings/project-color-trees-reading.html)
     * [Project Ideas: Fractals](../readings/project-fractals-reading.html)

### Extra Credit Opportunities

#### Academic 

* CS Extras Thursday: NBB on her summer REU (Android and Robots!)
* CS Table Friday: TBD (???)
* Convocation April 22nd, Erica Lehrer '92 (Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography)

#### Peer Support (Afternoon Section)

* Host an admitted student this coming Sunday night.  Contact JMU for info.
* Contra Dance Workshop Thursday the 16th at 7:30 pm in BCA Dance Studio.
* Salsa Showcase, 6:00 and 8:00 pm Friday, April 17 in Roberts.
* Drag Show April 18
* Contra Dance April 24 in Main Hall.
* Psych Job Talks Tuesday and Thursday at 4:15.
* Bio seminar noon on Friday.

#### Miscellaneous

* Town hall April 23, noon or 7:30 pm, "How we have conversations."

### Other Good Things (no extra credit)

* Wednesday night event
* Hunting Grounds showing

### Questions?

Welcome to admitted students
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* What is your name?
* Where are you from?
    * Washington
    * Missouri
    * Cambridge, MA, our fair city
* Where else are you considering?
    * UW
    * Haverford
    * Hamilton
    * Mt. Allison in Canada
* Why should you come here?
    * People in the midwest are nice.  Creepily nice.  And we are
      remarkably underinformed about whether people are as nice elsewhere.
      (Sam is from Boston.)
    * We offer so many awesome things to do that you will find something
      fulfilling.
    * Small town!
    * Things are so difficult that we provide you with tons of help.
      MathLab, Science Learning Center, Writing Lab, Mentors, Tutors,
      sometimes even faculty members
* What question do you have for these students?
    * What kinds of things do you do to pass the time in Grinnell?
      (Please only mention things that Sam should hear.)
        * Take classes.
        * Work.
        * Play Ultimate Flying Disc.
        * Swim.  Hang with the really great swim community.
        * Dance - Belly dance, Salsa, Contra, Swing, Blues, ...
        * Play music
        * Athletics - Tennis, Cross country, Track and field, Baseball,
          Basketball, ACL tearing, soccer, 
        * Socialize at Harris parties
        * Throw parties with interesting themes (Disco, Drag Show,
          Mary B. James, )
        * Participate in theatre
        * And more.
    * What was the biggest deciding factor for coming here?
      (After you answer "Money", what else?)
        * Coaches
        * Individually mentored curriculum - Avoid GenEd
        * Academics, really good
        * Nate
        * People
        * Far from everything
        * Small enough that you can know people, but larger enough that
          you can get lost.
    * What has been your experience in CS?
      (Weird faculty, heavy workload)
        * Supportive, caring faculty

About Quiz 10
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Background: About the project
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* Write a procedure `(image-series n width height)` that makes an image
* Of the specified width and height.
* Same n, same general image, possibly stretched or scaled.
* Different n, different image
* Images should be compelling
    * Based on a careful design
* Using at least three different techniques
* Next Monday night: Design statements
* Next Tuesday: Two sketches
* Two weeks from tomorrow: Project code, sample images, etc.

Some examples
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General elements of design
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Relationships between elements
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Broader design principles
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Some examples
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