Coding Elective Art Meets Code

This visual arts and technology course use art lesson plans to introduce students to creative coding. Using JavaScript and p5.js code, students draw on a digital canvas, create Snapchat-style photo filters, and much much more. Take inspiration from famous artists like Picasso, Mondrian, and Monet, then recreate work in the same style — with code!

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Unit 1: Introduction

With these elementary art lessons you’ll learn how to draw circles, quadrilaterals and more. Explore key geometric ideas - vertices and radians, and how computers use color, and how JavaScript represents coordinates.

9 Lessons:

1. Welcome
2. Introduction to JavaScript
3. Colors

4. Lab: Piet Mondrian
5. Ellipses and Circles
6. More Basic Shapes

7. Lab: Emojis
8. Review
9. Quiz

Unit 2: Colors and Shapes

Learn art concepts as code: changing the transparency of colors, layering shapes, and more. You’ll also learn core programming concepts like functions and randomness.

11 Lessons:

10. Color Schemes
11. Irregular Shapes
12. Lab: Create a Logo
13. User-Defined Functions

14. Lab: Silhouette
15. Transparency
16. Lab: Origami Art
17. Randomness

20. Lab: Cubism
21. Review
22. Quiz

Unit 3: Beauty of Code

Learn new tricks for creating art: blending colors, making gradients, and more. Using these visual art lessons you’ll also learn core programming concepts like variables, loops, and how to use them to create a perspective art piece of your own design.

10 Lessons:

23. Variables
24. Logic and Decisions
25. Loops
26. Lab: Refactoring

27. Gradients
28. Lab: Create a Cityscape
29. Shading: Creating Depth
30. Lab: Sol LeWitt

31. Review
32. Quiz

Unit 4: Logic of Art

Examine coding structures that can help you master when, where, and how you paint the screen. This section is heavy on coding techniques that will allow you to control the feel of your digital brushstrokes.

9 Lessons:

33. Advanced Logic
34. Pixel Art Challenge
35. Draw

36. Implicit Shading
37. Lab: Impressionism
38. Transformations

39. Lab: Perspective
40. Review
41. Quiz

Unit 5: Image Processing & Pixel Editing

Learn how to manipulate the existing pixels of images, and invent your own Snapchat-style filters with these fine art lesson plans. Then apply the techniques of silkscreen artists like Andy Warhol, and spend some time with pointillism.

10 Lessons:

42. Images
43. Lab: Pointillism
44. Arrays
45. Pixel Data

46. Lab: Andy Warhol
47. Steganography
48. Pixel Art Effects
49. Lab: Halftones

50. Review
51. Quiz

Unit 6: Interactive Art and Animation

Create interactive artwork and simple web-based games using p5.js. You’ll also explore data structures and object-oriented programming.

7 Lessons:

52. Mouse Interaction
53. Keyboard Interaction
54. Objects

55. Lab: Picture Slideshow
56. Lab: Art Gallery
57. Review

58. Quiz

Unit 7: Capstone Project

Upon completion of these visual arts lesson plans, you’ll spend several weeks programming an open-ended project of your choice. Form a small group or work solo. Templates, meeting agendas, and a sample project walkthrough are provided to help keep things on task.

3 Lessons:

59. Intro to the Final Project
60. Breaking Bricks
61. Your Final Project

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