Technical Days Wiki

Welcome

Welcome to the (ever) revised and revisable Technical Days wiki. These pages are used to support the students of the MA Media Design program of the Piet Zwart Institute which is the post-graduate school of the Willem de Kooning Academy, located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is also hoped that the information could be of use to a broader interested public, and in keeping with the spirit of a wiki, all are welcome to contribute. For information on how to use this wiki software see the software's user's guide.

Missing Material?

Many pages have been imported from a previous incarnation of this site. Images and attached files didn't make the jump however, and still need to get added back.

Course Material

We use How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer as a text book for the course. This wiki is used as a central place to collect and distribute materials for the course (including "starting code" and various examples & exercises).

Tutorial Schedule

Michael's most recent Tutorial Schedule

2007 - 2008

Trimester 3 (current)

• 3.01 Single Loop / PyGame
• 3.02 HeadlineZapper continues
• 3.03 A taste of objects
• 3.04 Hands-on Electronics: Arduino Basics
• 3.05 15 May, 2008
• 3.06 Add-on, plug-in, drop out, 22 May, 2008
• 3.07 Add-on, plug-in, drop out continued, 28 May, 2008

• 3.08 Enacting code? Jun, 2008

Collab Lab

• ListeningAndWatching

Trimester 2

• 2.01 PHP Headlines
• http://automatist.org/wiki/TechDaze
• 2.04 More fun with sliders
• 2.05 Pseudo-Coding / Trans-Coding
• 2.06 Uploads with CGI / Generating a Live (Code) Stream
• ["GStreamer"] Media Pipelines

Trimester 1

• 1.01 Designing with Bits
• 1.02 Finite State (Design) Machines
• 1.03 Open Source Tools for Media Design
  • Problem Set 1.01 (solutions)
• 1.04 Image Bashing
• 1.05 Image Loops & Sockets
• 1.06 Feeding your Python
• 1.07 Thematic Project Day
• 1.08 BASIC/python animation

You can of course still travel back in time (or the other direction).

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