Week 9 (Classes!)

Object
        --> Simple basic objects:
                Nil, Boolean (true, false)
        --> Magnitudes
                Number
                SimpleNumber, Integer, Float
                Polar, I
                Character (Char)
        --> Collections
                        Sets
                                Dictionary, IdentityDictionary, Environment, Event
                        SequenceableCollections
        --> GUI Classes
        --> UGens
        --> Server and Server Classes
        --> Synthesis Process Classes
        --> AbstractFunction (Functions)
        --> Patterns


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week 8

Present:
        1.        Fani Konstantinidou
        2.        Spyros
        3.        Maria Boua
        4.        Kyriakos
        5.        Leonidas
        6.        Tasos
        7.        Dimitris
        8.        Orestis
        9.        Nikos
        10.        Panayiotis Diamantis
        11.        Konstatinos Tsatsakos


Design Patterns: Christopher Alexander, Kent Beck, Gang of 4 Patterns (Gamma / Vlissides)
Refactoring (Fowler)

Events, Environments, Sets, SequenceableCollections

Week 7

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Parousies: Konstantinos Tsatsakos, Orestis Plakias, Nikos Palamaris, Panayiotis Diamantis, Tasos Lizos, Spyros Xenitopoulos, Maria Boua, Fani konstantinidou
Apousies: Dimitris Alafouzos, Kyriakos Tsoukalas, Leonidas Chartofylakas

Short lecture by Satoru Takaku
        Toshio Hosokawa
        Makoto Shinohara
        Jo Kondo
        Yoji Yuasa

Week 6: SynthDef

Plan for following weeks:
13/12
        Final session server commands // Synth and Group control //
        SynthDefs start
20/12        
        SynthDefs continued, Interactive Synth Control // Envelopes // GUI
10/1
        Filters // Buffers // Disk IO (Files)
17/1
        Routines, Streams, Patterns
24/1
        FFT Spectum Domain Synthesis + alla Granular synthesis
31/1
        Discussion, review of projects

5/2 Review
7/2 Quiz
20/2 Projects due

Some topics:
        quit / play / postln
        Node Synth Group

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Attendance: Maria Boua Kyriakos Tsoukalas, Orestis Plakias, Nikos Palamaris, Dimitris Alafouzos, Leonidas, Tasos Lizos, Fani Konstantinidi Spyros, Panayotis Diamantis

Week 5 Server Commands, SynthDesc, Creating Synths

Server Commands

/s_new, /n_run, /n_set, n_free, “/quit”


Examples:

a = NetAddr("127.0.0.1", 57110);

a.sendMsg("/quit");

a.sendMsg("/s_new", "default", 2000, 0, 0, \freq, 400, \amp, 0.1);
a.sendMsg("/s_new", "default", 2001, 0, 0, \freq, 500, \amp, 0.1);
a.sendMsg("/s_new", "default", 2002, 0, 0, \freq, 600, \amp, 0.1);

a.sendMsg("/n_free", 2000);
a.sendMsg("/n_run", 2000, 0);
a.sendMsg("/n_run", 2000, 1);

a.sendMsg("/n_run", 2000, 0)

a.sendMsg("/n_set", 2000, "freq", 500);
a.sendMsg("/n_set", 2000, "freq", 1500);
a.sendMsg("/n_set", 2000, "freq", 150);
a.sendMsg("/n_free", 2000);

a.sendMsg("/n_run", 0, 1);
a.sendMsg("/n_run", 0, 0);

Week 4 HMSL, OSC basics, Unix

There was a 1.5 hour lecture covering mainly 3 topics:

Background for OSC:
        Unix shell, commands, file system.
        Relative and absolute paths.
        TCP/IP, UDP, IP address and port

Review of object oriented programming principles:
- Object: State (Attributes) and Behavior
- Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
- Examples of Classes

SuperCollider:
- Getting help in SuperCollider
- Browsing code in SuperCollider
- Starting (booting) and stopping (quitting) the server

Other topics:
HMSL
Bibliographical research tools online. The University Portal website.

All were present:

✓         Maria Bua
✓         Konstantinos Tsatsakos
✓         Tasos Lizos
✓         Leonidas Hartofylakas
✓         Nikos Palamaris
✓         Spyros Xenitopoulos
✓         Panayotis Diamantis
✓         Kyriakos Tsoukalas
✓         Orestis Plakias
✓         Fani Konstantinidou
✓         Dimitris Alafouzos

Week 3: OOP, AI and Cognitive Science

Lecture:

1. Programming Language Paradigms: Procedural (C, Pascal, Basic, Fortran etc.), Functional (LISP, Haskell, Scheme etc.) Logic (PROLOG) and Object Oriented (Smalltalk, Squeak, SuperCollider)
2. Birth and history of AI, Cognitive Science, Neural Networks (Neuroscience) and the idea of computer models and simulations of cognition, emotion, culture, etc.
3. Main concepts of Object Oriented Programming:

        •        Background: Alan Kay, (and his interests in education and cognitive science), SmallTalk
        •        The concept and implementation of Object unites Data and Program in one programming construct.
        •        An Object in OOP is thus characterized by its state or attibutes (Data?) and its behavior (methods, ~ programs)
        •        Three basic characteristics of classic OOP languages: Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance
        •        Encapsulation: Access to data inside an object is limited to that object itself. To read or write tThe object determines its behavior the

Practical session:

At the end we ran some introductory tutorials from the latest SuperCollider distribution.

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All were present:

✓         Maria Bua
✓         Konstantinos Tsatsakos
✓         Tasos Lizos
✓         Leonidas Hartofylakas
✓         Nikos Palamaris
✓         Spyros Xenitopoulos
✓         Panayotis Diamantis
✓         Kyriakos Tsoukalas
✓         Orestis Plakias
✓         Fani Konstantinidou
✓         Dimitris Alafouzos