Introduction to 👩🏽‍🎤🤖 Creative Computing 2026/2027

Introduction to Creative Computing 2026/2027: 🪙: Individual Work 6: Coin toss, Drunk Walk I, II and III
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Today we are going to complete four exercises from Code as a Creative Medium, which was written by Tega Brain and Golan Levin. As I said last week, I'd really recommend picking up a copy if you can, it's full of brilliant reference, exercises and project briefs.

A reminder from yesterday: make these exercises on the online p5.js editor at https://editor.p5js.org - easier for sharing with others and a nice way of building up a portfolio of p5.js sketches.

Let's discuss "Coin Toss" before we all try it on our own on the p5.js editor. Any suggestions? How are we going to get a value for the coin toss? What are we going to use to decide to display heads or tails on screen? We have 15 minutes on this exercise. Show the PDF Joel!

Next, let's spend 15 minutes on the "Drunk Walk I: Brownian Motion" exercise. What should we use to remember all the previous positions of the line? What can we use from this morning? Show the PDF Joel!

Next, let's spend 15 minutes on the "Drunk Walk II: Random Lattice Walk" exercise. What can we reused from the previous exercise? This is why it's useful to build up a portfolio of sketches! Show the PDF Joel!

For the final 15 minutes, let's look at the "Drunk Walk III: Smoothed Noise" exercise. Show the PDF Joel!

Have you started making your portfolio of sketches and your reflective statement? See the unit wiki for links to places to help you make your own if you get stuck. I'd REALLY recommend adding to your GitHub page every week, and your reflective statement. An hour a week in these individual sessions will make a BIG difference and you won't be in a rush at the end of the unit. Have you tried the Share option in the File menu of editor.p5js.org? It's a great way of getting URLs to add to your portfolio of sketches.