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 7: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Sections 8.1 - 8.3 (pp. 180 - 184).
• Problem Set:
  • (For discussion in class, will not be collected): What would happen if you had a 4 second sound and tried to crop a 2 second section, starting at 3 seconds? What should happen? Does anything need to be added into the code?

Week 7: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Sections 8.4 and 8.6, Section 8.5 is optional

Week 7: Thursday

• Lab Entrance assignment:
  • Finish any assigned reading from chapter 8.
• You may start on Programming Project #3 any time after finishing today's lab. It is due by Friday of Week 8.

Week 7: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read the first part of Chapter 12, up to 12.1 (pp. 271 - 272).
• Problem Set:
  • We will be working on a mini-lab in class: Simple Animations

Looking Ahead:

• Programming Project #3 is due at or before the beginning of class on Friday of Week 8.

Week 8: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Section 12.1 (pp. 272 - 281). When you read, concentrate more on the algorithms for getting the objects to move. For now, we will not be writing each frame to a new file, but instead will be showing the canvas each time through the loop.

Week 8: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment:Finish the minilabs from Friday and Monday on simple animations. You should be able to move boxes and pictures in numerous ways within a specified background.

Week 8: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Sections 13.1, 13.2 (pp. 291 - 303).
• Programming Project #3 is due at the beginning of class.

Looking Ahead:

• The Final Programming Project is due at the beginning of class on Friday of Tenth Week. We will be showing the animations during class that Friday.

Week 9: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Section 13.3 (pp. 303 - 306).
• Assignment due:
  Storyboards for final programming project are due TODAY!.
• Boolean Algebra Slides (.ppt)

Week 9: Thursday

• There is no lab entrance assignment for Lab 9. Be sure you are caught up on reading.
• Gates slides (.ppt)

Week 9: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Finish any reading from Chapter 13 that you have not done yet.
• Problem Set:
  • Binary and Assembly

Looking Ahead:

• The Final Programming Project is due on Friday of Tenth Week.

Week 10:

• Reading assignment:
  • No new reading assignment. Catch up on any reading from the quarter that you haven't finished.

Week 10: Wednesday

• The Halting Problem (.pdf)

Week 10: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment: Finish creating pictures for your animation.

Week 10: Friday

• The Final Programming Project is due on Friday of Tenth Week.

• Be prepared to show your final project to the class.

The solutions to the practice final exam may be found here: FinalS08PrSolns.doc.