CS 107: Pictures and Sounds: Programming with Multimedia

Reading Assignments, Discussion Questions, and Programming Projects will be listed here in chronological order by due date, i.e., with the most recent ones at the bottom of the list.

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This document was last modified on May 28, 2008.

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Week 5: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Section 9.1 (pp. 201 - 204).
  • Read any of the assigned reading from Chapter 5 that you have not yet finished, including all of section 5.4.
• Problem Set: Do the exercises from Chapter 4.

Week 5: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read any of the previous sections you have had difficulty with or haven't read yet.
• Problem Set: Practice Midterm

Week 5: Thursday

Midterm

Week 5: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  Read Section 6.1 on how sound is encoded.

  Looking Ahead:

  Programming Project #2 is due Monday of Week 6.

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Week 6: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Section 6.2.1 (pp. 145 - 148).
  • Read the second half of section 6.2.2 - Using the JES Media Tools (bottom of p. 149 - p. 151).
  • Read Section 6.2.3 (pp. 151 - 154).
• Problem Set:
  Work through the exercises that they do in the reading.

Week 6: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Sections 6.3 and 6.4 (pp. 154 - 164).
• Problem Set:
  Work through the exercises that they do in the reading.

Week 6: Thursday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Sections 7.1 and 7.3 (pp. 167 - 169, pp. 175 - 177).
• Lab Entrance Assignment:
  Type in Recipes 53 (changeVolume), 54 (normalize), 55 (onlymaximize), 57 (increaseAndDecrease), and 60 (backwards). Save them in a file called Lab6.py. Remember to add appropriate comments at the beginning of the file with your name, today's date, and program description.

Week 6: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Section 7.2 (pp. 170 - 175).
  • Finish reading any other parts of Chapters 6 and 7 that you have not yet read.
  • Problem Set:
    Work through the exercises that they do in the reading.

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