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Week 3 Homework: #

Dance Party #

Assignment #

Watch the video for Around the World by Daft Punk. While you’re enjoying the music, think about how each of the different dancers/monsters in the video are like an object. They are similar, but have their own behaviors. Create a sketch that has a dance party. Use multiple instances of a class, or create multiple classes and many objects thsat have their own dance party. Your idea of a dance party may not have actual bodies, that’s ok. Explore different kinds of ways of creating objects with unique behaviors. Post this on your class site.

Reading #

• Watch videos on objects and arrays.
• Read Objects of Our Affection : How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium by Casey Alt. Online access provided by NYU libraries. It’s a denser read than the other things we have engaged with so far, so give yourself some extra time. Write a response to Alt’s chapter. He argues that computers became “media” and were no longer just big adding machines when data and interface became rolled into one. With your newfound perspective on what object oriented programming is thanks to the videos above, how do you think this changed computation? What does this provide you? How can you see this being useful?
• (Optionally) Read Getting Started With p5.js Chapters 10 & 11. Online access provided by NYU libraries.
• (Optionally) Read What Screens Want by Frank Chimero