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✨ Here we are, together at last in the warm embrace of CART253 - Creative Computation I! ✨

Learning Objectives

• Understand the nature and structure of the course
• Get the basic software up and running
• Understand and set up version control

Template

• template-p5-project.zip

Modules

Vimeo playlist for Hello, World!

(Inline links below are for YuJa)

• Welcome to Creative Computation!
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Welcome to Creative Computation notes
• Software Setup
  • Follow the Course Software Installation Guide
• What is version control?
  • Watch the video
  • Read the What is version control? notes
• Creating a Repository
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Creating a Repository notes
• Version Control Workflow
  • Download the workflow example code
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Version Control Workflow notes
• GitHub Pages
  • Watch the video
  • Read the GitHub Pages notes

Examples

Projects from CART253 in 2023

• Emotional Support Pet by Dorsa Zare
• JumpThang by Samuel Reinstein Wright
• Mantis Anatomy by Scarlett Perez-Hernandez
• Minigame Library by Nicolas Morales-Sanabria

🔥 Hot tip: Some better user settings

By default VS Code can be a bit overaggressive with its autocomplete suggestions. If you’d like a relatively simple setup for your VS Code (assuming you haven’t customized it a bunch already), then you could copy the following (including the curly brackets):

{
    "security.workspace.trust.untrustedFiles": "open",
    "workbench.startupEditor": "none",
    "liveServer.settings.donotShowInfoMsg": true,
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.formatOnType": true,
    "[json]": {
        "editor.quickSuggestions": {
            "other": "off",
            "strings": "off"
        },
        "editor.inlineSuggest.suppressSuggestions": true,
        "editor.inlineSuggest.enabled": false
    },
    "editor.acceptSuggestionOnCommitCharacter": false,
    "editor.trimAutoWhitespace": false,
    "editor.formatOnPaste": true,
    "update.showReleaseNotes": false,
    "javascript.suggest.enabled": false,
    "typescript.suggest.enabled": false
}

Then go to VS Code and:

1. Hit Command-Shift-P (Mac) or Control-Shift-P (Windows to open the “Command Palette)
2. Type “User Settings” to bring up the user settings option
3. Choose “Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)
4. Select everything in the resulting file and replace it by pasting in the above JSON

Or, if you have a bunch of settings in there, feel free to add the stuff above at the end.

🔥 Hot tip: One repository per project

Out in the “real world” developers start a repository for each project they work on.

So if you were going to make a project for this class called Eggmageddon you’d go through the same steps you used to create your cart253 repository, but instead create an eggmageddon repository.

Then, if you were starting a new project called Judge, Jury and Eggsecutioner you would create another repository called judge-jury-and-eggsecutioner to keep that one in.

And so on and so on for Eggscommunicated By the Pope, Egg You Very Much, and Sunny Side Up.

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