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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to Computer Science and Media Computation | |
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| What is Computer Science About? | |
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| What Computers Understand | |
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| Media Computation: Why Digitize Media? | |
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| Computer Science for Everyone | |
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| Introduction to Java | |
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| Java | |
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| Introduction to DrJava | |
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| Java Basics | |
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| Variables | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Introduction to Programming | |
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| Programming is About Naming | |
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| Files and Their Names | |
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| Class and Object Methods | |
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| Working with Turtles | |
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| Creating Methods | |
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| Working with Media | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Pictures | |
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| Modifying Pictures Using Loops | |
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| How Pictures are Encoded | |
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| Manipulating Pictures | |
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| Changing Color Values | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Modifying Pixels in a Matrix | |
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| Copying Pixels | |
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| Copying and Transforming Pictures | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Conditionally Modifying Pixels | |
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| Conditional Pixel Changes | |
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| Simple Edge Detection: Conditionals with Two Options | |
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| Sepia-Toned and Posterized Pictures: Using Multiple Conditionals to Choose the Color | |
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| Highlighting Extremes | |
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| Combining Pixels: Blurring | |
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| Background Subtraction | |
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| Chromakey | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Drawing | |
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| Drawing Using the Graphics Class | |
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| Programs as Specifying Drawing Process | |
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| Using Graphics2D for Advanced Drawing | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Sounds | |
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| Modifying All Samples in a Sound | |
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| How Sound is Encoded | |
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| Manipulating Sounds | |
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| Changing the Volume of Sounds | |
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| Normalizing Sounds | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Modifying Samples Using Ranges | |
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| Manipulating Different Sections of a Sound Differently | |
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| Create a Sound Clip | |
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| Splicing Sounds | |
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| Reversing a Sound | |
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| Mirroring a Sound | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Making Sounds by Combining Pieces | |
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| Composing Sounds Through Addition | |
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| Blending Sounds | |
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| Creating an Echo | |
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| How Sampling Keyboards Work | |
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| Additive Synthesis | |
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| Modern Music Synthesis | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Creating Classes | |
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| Identifying the Objects and Fields | |
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| Defining a Class | |
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| Overloading Constructors | |
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| Creating and Initializing an Array | |
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| Creating Accessors (Getters) and Modifiers (Setters) | |
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| Creating a Main Method | |
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| Javadoc Comments | |
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| Creating Another Class | |
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| Reusing a Class Via Inheritance | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Text, Files, Networks, Databases, and Unimedia | |
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| Creating and Modifying Text | |
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| Text as Unimedia | |
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| Strings: Character Sequences | |
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| Files: Places to Put Your Strings and Other Stuff | |
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| Other Useful Classes | |
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| Networks: Getting Our Text from the Web | |
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| Using Text to Shift Between Media | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Making Text for the Web | |
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| HTML: The Notation of the Web | |
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| Writing Programs to Generate HTML | |
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| Databases: A Place to Store Our Text | |
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| Relational Databases | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Movies | |
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| Encoding, Manipulating, and Creating Movies | |
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| Generating Frame-Based Animations | |
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| Working with Video Frames | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Topics in Computer Science | |
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| Speed | |
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| Focusing on Computer Science | |
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| What Makes Programs Fast? | |
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| What Makes a Computer Fast? | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| JavaScript: A Web Page Programming Language | |
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| JavaScript Syntax | |
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| JavaScript Inside of Web Pages | |
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| User Interfaces in JavaScript | |
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| Multimedia in JavaScript | |
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| Concepts Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Quick Reference to Java | |
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| Variables | |
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| Method Declarations | |
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| Loops | |
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| Conditionals | |
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| Operators | |
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| String Escapes | |
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| Classes | |
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| Fields | |
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| Constructors | |
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| Packages | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |