Media Arts and Technology

Yes, something like <your-initials>-PS4, or you can stick the code in one of your existing repos. -A

Hi, I've been getting some questions about the homework. The idea is that you are using a String as the key to retrieve a List of GeometricShapes. So, for instance: Map<String, List<GeometricShape>> shapeMap = new HashMap<String, List<GeometricShape>>(); List<GeometricShape> circleList = new List<Ge...

Hi, each public class and public interface should be in its own file, which is named the same name as the class or interface, ending with ".java". -A

Hi, sorry if the assignment wasn't clear. The idea is to use the controlP5 library for GUI elements that control some aspect of a *second* Processing library of your choice. That is, to make an interface for Minim or GLGraphics or any one of the dozens of libraries found at http://processing.org/ref...

It's just a weird thing that Processing expects. You could hardcode it in your main method, or to save typing it twice you could use the $1 arguments as in the example script from the slides. -A

Hi, if you look at your runMe bash script you will see that your classpath doesn't include the current directory. You need to specify every directory, even the one you are running from. If you prepend your classpath with the "." to indicate the current directory, then your code will run fine. In you...

Thanks for uploading that, Michael. There are links to online Java textbooks from the syllabus as well. I have some slides/code from an Intro Java course I taught a couple of years ago that you might also find helpful: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~a.forbes/cs5JA/index.html . You'll notice that we are al...

Most of the man pages have an "EXAMPLES" section which can provide insight into the commands when the description is vague or context is unclear.

Hi, if you are working directly in Processing and are using custom libraries (i.e., ones that are not included automatically in the Processing distribution) you will probably have to put your sketch in the default Processing sketch folder. On OSX this is in "~/Documents/Processing/". Beneath that di...

Hi yes, I probably should have used the word "extend" instead of "override." Often when you use the "extends" keyword to inherit from a class you end up overriding some of the methods. You don't need a special keyword to override a method, you simply make the function signature look the same. -Angus...