Unit 1:  Introduction to Media Computation and to Java Programming.  CS objectives include fundamental concepts of naming and encodings, object classes, object instances, method invocation, statements, sequences, assignment, expressions, statements, and conditionals.  Digital media motivation and importance.

Unit 2: Digital images/pictures.  CS objectives include data structures of arrays and matrices, and execution understanding of iteration, reinforce conditionals, debugging strategies.  Media objectives include models of picture representation (HSV and RGB) and their encoding in files, along with machinery of reading/writing picture files and methods to manipulate them within a Java program.

Prog 1 Due

Unit 3: Advanced pictures.  CS objectives include synthesis of loops and conditionals to modify pixels within a range.  Also multiple (source and destination) object manipulation.  Vector and bitmap image formats and coordinate systems.  Media obectives include more advanced picture manipulations of blending, rotation, scaling, background substitution.

Unit 4: Larger applications and algorithms.  Larger media-related programs building on fundamental concepts already covered.  CS objectives focus on design and use of multi-class programs and use of algorithms to achieve particular objectives.

Unit 5: Digital audio.  CS objectives to reinforce loops, conditionals, ranges and object manipulation in the new domain of digital audio.  Media objectives include understanding physics and psychophysics of sound, and from that, their encoding as digital media.  Audio effects such as filters and delay/echo/reverb will also be explored.

Unit 6:  Wrapping up sound.  Searching and sorting algorithms.

Unit 7:  Final project; putting it all together.