Welcome to the second course; Data structure for
designers using Python. Remember that this
is the second course of our certificate
programming for designers. If you haven't covered
the first course, I invite you to go back
and revisit that content. The course is called Python
fundamentals for designers. I'm going to do a little recap in case you already
know a bit of coding, and you want to start in
this point in the course, what we have covered so far. We're learning Python within
the processing environment. Processing is a small application
that has a Python mode, so we could actually write interactive
sketches dynamically, and we have a Canvas, so we can actually draw
things to the screen. We have covered syntax, variables, coordinates,
and functions. That's the first week
of the Course 1. But we've also tackled things like conditional
statements, Boolean logic, simple
state machines to start creating certain
interactive designs. We've covered transformations, things like translate, rotate, and scale, using the push and pop matrix
operations within processing. Finally, we have spent some time looking at
reading and writing data. We have covered how to
read and write text files, but also CSV files like comma separated values
as well as pixel data. We open up images, read the pixel data, re-write those in
different formats. That's basically an overview of what we have covered
already in Course 1. If you feel like you have
a grasp over that content, I invite you to continue
with this second course; Data structure for designers. I look forward to
seeing you in class.