Week 7

Iteration – Repetition With Variations

In Class

• Presentation
  • Niico on Forensic Architecture
• Right Twice a Day
  • Review your 3 conditional-based clock animations and 3 calendar sketches
• Programming Workshop
  • One of the most useful things about computers is their ability to perform a task 1,000,000 times as easily as they can do it once. This week we will learn about a fundamental mechanism for orchestrating repetition (and variation) in your code: the loop.
    • looping with for … of and range()
    • turning repetitive code into a loop
    • drawing a grid
    • drawing a month using calendar()
    • linear gradients
    • conic gradients

Assignment

• Exercise: Writing loops

• Right Twice a Day
  • Review your visualizations from past weeks combine the best ideas you’ve experimented with to create three final visualizations:
    1. A representation of the current time
    2. A representation of the current date
    3. A ‘hybrid’ representation that shows both the date & time simultaneously
  • Use each of the different techniques at least once to represent different datatypes:
    • quantitative: use map() and mapColor() to translate the original value into a smooth range of visual values
    • categorical: use if/else to treat conceptually-related ranges of values as visually ‘the same’
    • discrete: use for…of to draw multiple copies of an object (where the number of repetitions is determined by some aspect of the date or time)
  • As before, duplicate the project template to start each visualization
  • Due date: 10/19 by 3 p.m. EDT
  • Format: Three P5 Editor-based sketches
  • Submit: Editor links via this form