The first time I enter this class, I didn’t have even the slightest idea about what this class could possibly teach me. When I knew that I was going to learn a new programming language; called Processing; in this class, I was a little disappointed. “Oh god, another coding, no!”, I said to myself.
Later on, everything turned out differently, beautifully. Unlike any other languages, Processing; instead of letting me output computations; let me make graphic designs by writing the right combination of syntaxes. I was pretty excited at this time. I loved graphic design so much and then I knew that programming also able to make design. Here, I learn that I have to be open to all possibilities and don’t underestimate something you think you won’t like.
My favorite homework would be the final project where I had to integrate Processing and Arduino together. I made music visualization with LED that could work with either the integrated microphone or the mp3 player. I made myself learn about a new Processing library that had never been taught in class, called Minim. How this thing work is Minim detect the music beat then translate it into number that could be read by Arduino, that number would decide which LED out of 8 lighted up. I spent my whole weekend with this project, from reading books to designing the UI.
All I can say that this course made my whole semester! I like Interactive Media, no, I love it!
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