CIM440-35 – Intro to Creative Coding - Spring 2020

Instructor: Zevensuy Rodriguez

Class Time: Wolfson 2046 MoWe 1:25 - 2:40PM

Class Site: https://github.com/zevenrodriguez/CIM440-IntroToCreativeCoding

Office: Francis L. Wolfson Building 2014

Office Hours by Appointment, please click here

Email: zevenrodriguez@miami.edu

Syllabus

Unity Scripting Reference

All Class Examples

Week 1 - Introduction to Creative Coding and Getting Started with Unity (Jan 13th-16th)

• Intro to Creative Coding Slides
• Inspiration
• Unity UI and C# scripts

Week 2 - Getting Started with Unity UI (Jan 20th-23rd)

Week 3 - Adding Interaction: Buttons, Keyboard input, and Conditionals (Jan 27th-30th)

• Counter Script
  • Text Box
• Counter Script With Float
  • Text Box

Week 4 – Working with Media (Feb 3rd-6th)

• Random Number Script
  • Text Box
  • Button
• Text Input Script
  • InputField
  • Button
  • Text Box
• Text Input Party Script
  • InputField
  • Button
  • Text Box
• Timer Script
  • Button
  • Text Box

Week 5 - Arrays and Loops (Feb 10th-13th)

• Image Download Link
• Image Gallery
  • Button
  • Raw Image
• Image Gallery Array
  • InputField
  • Button
  • Text Box

Week 6 - Animation and Movement(Feb 17th-20th)

• Quiz
  • Button
  • Text Box
• Quiz Loop and Timer
  • Button
  • Text Box

Week 7 - Keyboard Input and Collisions (Feb 24th-27th)

• iSpy Start Package
• iSpy Finished Package
• Keyboard Input
• Trigger Collision

Week 8 - Midterm Project Workday (Mar 3rd-5th)

• Finish iSpy
• Adding Assets
  • Finished Example
  • https://assetstore.unity.com/
  • https://poly.google.com/
  • https://3d.si.edu/

Midterm Requirements

Based of the Gallery, Quiz, or iSpy interactions create a new original project.

• Create an orignal layout (10 Points)
• Extend the example to make it your own
  • Add a minimum 8 elements of interaction (10 Points each)
• Add a timer or scoring element (10 Points)

New Syllabus

The class will be a flip classroom. I will post video lectures or assignments before class and during class we will have office hours. I will be available only through teams. I would like to keep emailing to a minimum to make sure that all questions get answered. If you have general questions, use the general chat. If you have specific questions, feel free to send me a message. Teams has a great feature to do screen sharing, FYI. If you are not available for class due to time zone issues, please reach out to make arrangements.

• Online lecturers will be available before class • Check in periodically for updates on assignments and lectures • Office hours during class time • Install Teams desktop

Week of March 23rd – Midterm Project Lab

Midterm Requirements

Based of the Gallery, Quiz, or iSpy interactions create a new original project.

• Create an orignal layout (10 Points)
• Extend the example to make it your own
  • Add a minimum 8 elements of interaction (10 Points each)
• Add a timer or scoring element (10 Points)

Week of March 30th – Audio and Video

• Audio and Video video tutorial
• Audio and video Completed Project

Week of April 6th - Intro to Physics

• Understanding Vectors
• Animating and Adding Materials to Gameobjects
• Playing with Physics

HW Complete the slides and Code Challenge (Due April 20th)

• Part 1
  • Add an else statement to the bounce code, and change the color
• Part 2 (Hint: use move cube example)
  • Create a new scene and script
  • Adjust the Z axis, When the ball goes forward, color = yellow
  • When the ball goes back, color = red
  • No gravity is needed
• Document both in a video and include the code examples in teams

Week of April 13th – Working with Prefabs

Week of April 20th - Inputs

Week of April 27th - Final Project Lab

Week of May 4th - Final Projects Due May 6

Final Project

For the final you are going to choose to make either a physics based game or an adventure style game. Start by completing one of the following sets of notes. Once completed you must add 3 interactive elements.

• Choose one of the following:
  • Physics Game
    • Getting Started & Collision Detection
    • Getting User Input
    • Trigger Colliders
    • Game Logic
  • Adventure Game
    • Getting Started & Using Lights, Cameras, and Assets
    • Inputs and Switch Statements
    • Adding a UI
    • Dynamic (Pop-Up)

Once completed: Add 3 interactable elements

Backing Up Your Work

• Use a cloud service, Onedrive has worked the best for me
  • Careful with cloud services that have online/offline file systems
  • If your files are only saved to the cloud and not your computer unity will have trouble operating correctly
• Sign up for github and use the Github Student Developer Pack https://education.github.com/pack
• You can sign up for Unity Student https://store.unity.com/academic/unity-student allowing you more storage space to upload your projects to Unity Collab
• Download and Install github desktop https://desktop.github.com/
  • On Macs, under the menu option for github desktop, it says install command line tools, make sure you do that.
• In Unity, import the github plugin into your projects
• I cover all of this stuff in this video

Asset Resources

Creative Commons Image Search

Open Clip Art

Unsplash

Pexels

Pixabay