Beyond "not-invented-here": development environments for a multimedia computation course

  • Authors:
  • Stephen P. Carl

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multimedia computation has emerged as a promising way for educators to motivate student interest in computer science and to build interdisciplinary bridges to the art, music, and graphic design worlds. This paper introduces two software development environments created by practitioners from the world of digital art, graphic design, and electronic music -- practitioners who have leveraged training in computer science to develop systems well suited not only to media content developers, but to teaching multimedia programming in the CS curriculum as well. We describe Processing, a Java-based IDE designed and used by digital artists, and Pure Data, a graphical development environment primarily for audio and video processing, and discuss classroom experiences with each in a sophomore-level multimedia programming course.