Lecture slides from the 2026-2027 Introduction to Creative Computing unit of Year 0, Block 1 of the Creative Computing Institute's BSc in Creative Computing by Joel Gethin Lewis. 👩🏽‍🎤🤖

Please see GitHub repo for more information and source code for slides.

Please see the unit Moodle for more information and particularly to submit your portfolio and reflective statement website.

🔎 Daily Structure:

Tuesday's from 0930 to 1300, from Tuesday 29th September 2026 to Tuesday 8th December 2026, followed by a break for seasonal holidays, resuming on Tuesday 12th January 2027 and finishing on Tuesday TBC.

Daily schedule (all times are London local time):

• 0930 - 1030: Lecture
• 1030 - 1045: Break
• 1045 - 1145: Group work
• 1145 - 1200: Break
• 1200 - 1300: Individual work

🗓 Schedule:

• Tuesday 29th September 2026, Introductions:
  • 👋🏻: Lecture 1: Introduction.
  • 🙋🏻‍♀️: Group work 1: What Git and GitHub are, signing up to GitHub, introductions and connections.
  • 🛠: Individual work 1: Using editor.p5js.org, where to find information about other ways of running p5.js duplicating a p5.js example on editor.p5js.org.
• Tuesday 6th October 2026, Counting and Remembering:
  • 🔢 & 🐘: Lecture 2: Counting and Remembering.
  • 💭: Group work 2: What's in a name?.
  • 🪞: Individual work 2: Binary <-> Decimal. CamelCase. Converting between types. Code based Data Self Portraits
• Tuesday 13th October 2026, Functions and Drawing:
  • ⚙️ & ✍🏿: Lecture 3: Functions and Drawing.
  • ☎️: Group work 3: Lillian Schwartz.
  • 🖼: Individual work 3: Drawing Your Initials and Draw, then Code.
• Tuesday 20th October 2026, Deciding and Looping:
  • 🤔 & 🔁: Lecture 4: Deciding and Looping.
  • ☀️: Group work 4: Sol Lewitt and the Tetralemma.
  • ↔️: Individual work 4: Left or Right, Billiard Ball and Seven Circles.
• Tuesday 27th October 2026, Arrays and Classes:
  • 📝 & 🚗: Lecture 5: Arrays and Classes.
  • 🧊: Group work 5: Creative uses of multiple dimensions and Timothy Morton.
  • 🖍: Individual work 5: Colour Observation, Living Line I and Ripples in a Pond.
• Tuesday 3rd November 2026, Randomness and Noise:
  • 🎰 & 📣: Lecture 6: Randomness and Noise.
  • 🪄: Group work 6: Vera Molnar and Alan Moore.
  • 🪙: Individual work 6: Coin toss, Drunk Walk I, II and III.
• Tuesday 10th November 2026, Scaling and Waves:
  • ⚖️ & 🌊: Lecture 7: Scaling and Waves.
  • 🧶: Group work 7: Anni Albers and Bridget Riley.
  • 🍑: Individual work 7: Butt Generator, Circle using Sine and Cosine.
• Tuesday 17th November 2026, Time and Algorithms:
  • ⏰ & 🗺: Lecture 8: Time and Algorithms.
  • 📆: Group work 8: Tehching Hsieh, Every Icon, RadicalArt.info.
  • 🌈: Individual work 8: Colour of a Pixel, Searching for the Brightest Point.
• Tuesday 24th November 2026, Feedback and Emergence:
  • ➰ & 🐣: Lecture 9: Feedback and Emergence.
  • 🌌: Group work 9: Joscha Bach and a Computational Universe.
  • 🦜: Individual work 9: Flocking and Conway's Game of Life.
• Tuesday 1st December 2026, State Machines and Libraries:
  • 📥 & 📚: Lecture 10: State Machines and Libraries.
  • 🧭: Group work 10: Where next?.
  • 👻: Individual work 10: RiTa.js and p5.gui
• Tuesday 8th December 2026, Assessment Tutorials:
  • 8 Slack tutorials, each 25 minutes long, on the hour and half past, starting at 0930. Book by editing the wiki tutorial page.
• Tuesday 12th January 2027, Assessment Tutorials:
  • 8 Slack tutorials, each 25 minutes long, on the hour and half past, starting at 0930. Book by editing the wiki tutorial page.
• Tuesday 19th January 2027 1400, submission deadline:
  • Submit a URL link to your GitHub Pages sketches portfolio and reflective statement on Moodle - don't forget your AI use declaration!
• Tuesday 26th January 2027 1400, adjusted submission deadline:
  • Submit a URL link to your GitHub Pages sketches portfolio and reflective statement on Moodle - don't forget your AI use declaration!

Slides made using Big presentation system.

Background colour of pages chosen as a result of this paper, thanks to Becca Rose for bringing it to my attention.

Thanks 🙏🏻 to Stella Doukianou, Xiaowan Yi, Joy Forbes, Pete Mackenzie, Toad Bakery, Rebecca Neary, Kati Russell, Abbie Vickress, Laura Knight, Rocio Rey Aloe, Becca Rose, Naho Matsuda, Cheska Lotherington, Lise Hansen, Val Toro, Murad Khan, Matthew Plummer Fernandez, Alex Fefegha, Anna Troisi, Ben Kelly, Cathy Hoste, Charlotte Webb, Julia Makivic, Kenneth Lim, Matt Jarvis, Melisa Simpson, Rebecca Fiebrink, Sheldon Brown, Tom Lynch, Eva Wilkinson, Vali Lalioti, Indira Knight, Alice Stewart, Ben Stopher, Mick Grierson, Georgina Capdevila Cano, Alan Warburton, Rebecca Ross, Jaap de Maat, Lauren McCarthy, Kyle McDonald, Jonathan Harris, Zach Lieberman, Jessica Bland, Rick Walker, Graham Bennett, Toby Milner-Gulland, Liam Walsh, Golan Levin, Greg Smith, Mark Lundin, Xiaohan Zhang, Lia, Joshua Goldberg, Rosa Menkman, Daniel Shiffman, Tega Brain, Caitlin Morris, Harri Lewis and Rune Madsen.

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