Course Review

Things Learned
As its name suggested, Interactive Media course is an interactivity-directed course where we learn how to make some animations, interact with some physical devices such as a Board, or even combine both.
First of all the Interactive Media course gave us an understanding about these two software Processing and Arduino.

Processing which is an open source programming language helped us program images, animation, and interactions. For instance, we learned how to deal with Images and text as well as make motions.
One thing that is important to notice is the fact that Processing programming language is based on Java language; so it was not too difficult to cope with it since we already had some experience with that language.

Arduino on the other hand, was quite more interesting since it included Hardware and Software. For instance we could write codes and at the same time make some designs on an Arduino Board. The most exciting part of Arduino is the fact that you can first program on the board and then upload it on the Software.

Favorite Homework
- Processing: My favorite homework (Homework 8 – Processing Test). I this homework we were asked to design a fan. I really quite impressed because we can only use translate() and rotate() function to design a very nice looking FAN.
- Arduino: My favorite homework was Arduino LED show.

Comments
Overall I have a great appreciation of this course because it was practical, useful and fun at the same time. However I wish we could learn even more!