Practical Creative Coding

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Florian Alt
Tutorials: Julian Rasch, Kathrin Schnizer
Hours per week: 4
ECTS credits: 6
Module: BA MI-NF PStO 2022

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Updates

Important: 27.04.2026 to 10.05.2026: Registration period for capacity-restricted courses (seminars, practicals) via LSF. If the course is dropped after this period for reasons within the student's control, it must be graded as "failed".

07.04.2026: Course communication will take place via Moodle. Link to Moodle

02.04.2026: Formal registration had to be completed via LSF and is now closed. Link to LSF

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Syllabus

Theme: Digital Creativity

Artists and creatives have always dealt with contemporary technologies and their use in the context of art, music and design. Creative Coding is therefore concerned with the creative possibilities that digital technologies, algorithms and programming languages offer to reach new forms of expression, but also to explore the medium and discover new facets in it. Over the course of the semester, new artistic concepts are implemented and experimented on a weekly basis.

Basics in the Java programming language are required for the course. During the course, all projects will be implemented with Processing

The aim of the event is an exhibition curated by the students of their own generative and algorithmic works.

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Sessions

Appointment: Mo. 14:00-16:00
First Appointment: 27.04.2026
Location: Frauenlobstr 7A, Room 357

This is a preliminary schedule and update to change.

Date	Time	Event
27.04.26	14:00 - 16:00	Course Introduction, Organizational, Coding in Processing
04.05.26	14:00 - 16:00	Coding Abstract Lines and Shapes
11.05.26	14:00 - 16:00	Public Displays Intro
18.05.26	14:00 - 16:00	Coding Pixel Manipulation, ASCII Art, Glitches
25.05.26		No Class - Public Holiday
01.06.26	14:00 - 16:00	Game of Life
08.06.26	14:00 - 16:00	Ideation + Group Formation
15.06.26	14:00 - 16:00	Project Pitch, Introduction to User Input (Microphone, Camera)
22.06.26	14:00 - 16:00	Group Work
29.06.26	14:00 - 16:00	Progress Pitch, Group Work
06.07.26	14:00 - 16:00	Group Work
13.07.26	TBD	Final Presentation + Individual Portfolio Submission