Course Overview
I have completed a first draft of a course overview. It is available for you comments and suggestions.
As blogger does not allow attachments it can be downloaded from my domain along with the rest of the files that follow
Lyndon Daniels Introduction To Programming with Processing
My main concern with the course outline is how applicable the main project currently is.
As you will see the class projects have been condensed into 3 projects. The third project which i refer to as "social commentary visualization" can be extended into a main project, if the Klipfontein project is to fall away.
Currently the course outline is designed so that the students have 3 Class projects and 1 main Project which is the Klipfontein Project.
Marion if I wanted to change this structure, would that be possible without causing too much of a problem on your side?
Currently either option is viable in terms of the documentation ie current option 3 class projects and 1 main project or option 2 which would be to have 3 larger scale class projects (as they have been identified in the course outline).
Your comments on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Documentation
I am currently about just over a third complete with the documentation and have provided two versions for you to have a look at also at the same website address.
The Formatted version has been edited to technical manual specifications and gives you an idea of how the documentation is going to be layed-out. Images have not been included in this version yet, if you would like to have an idea of what the images will look like please see the unformatted version, images currently without tags. The cover image still needs some work, but is about 80% complete.
The Un-Formatted version has not been edited past page 15 Software Development. I would prefer it if you directed any comments or questions you may have at the pages preceding this section.
Time Frames
Regrading the completion of the documentation. As the documentation has developed into something somewhat more comprehensive than I'd originally anticipated I am aiming to have it completed by the end of Feb 2011. How this will work in terms of the lectures is that I will have the documentation covering the first two weeks completed much sooner, in fact I am currently about 90% complete with the unformatted version of this section. As soon as this is done I will make it available for Brad, and Brad can distribute it upon commencement of the course. In the First week of March the rest of the documentation will follow to complete the entire course guide.
I have already discussed this possibility with Brad, who does not have a problem with this approach.
Marion please could you let me know if you are okay with this, approach?
My current time allocation in percentages of the total time dedicated to this project (for those interested)
Blogging 6%
Cover Image Creation 8 %
Email and Admin 1.25%
Formatting and Editing Documentation 7.25%
Unformatted notes creation, Image creation and Research 68%
Course Preparation 6%
Research without documentation 3.5%
I should make a visualization of that data... kidding :)
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