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st33d
 
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Convincing a University
« on: Jan 18th, 2005, 2:38am » |
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I'm unsure as to how Processing may taught / shown to students at other universities but I would like to go about getting my own university to front some software support of Processing. I am studying an undergraduate degree in Graphic Fine Art and I have just come around to object orientated programming in the last six-months . This would not have been possible with out this language being about. I can now translate ideas into Flash and other languages but never would have grasped the concept of datatypes and objects without being able to try out basic ideas first and not be scared of the language.
I'm basically looking to get East London University (UEL) to have some of the software on their machines. Purely so I can be able to work away from home and test applications on Macintosh as well as PC (not to mention being able to ask for hardware support for my end of year exhibit). Just this year the university has moved towards providing more tutor support in graphics programming. Those tutors aren't specifically versed in Processing or Java to my knowledge but I think it would be a benifit to the students if they also had another language to choose from.
Can anybody offer me any advice on how to go about this?
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Ethan
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Re: Convincing a University
« Reply #1 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 10:23pm » |
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Have you spoken to any of the professors about it? I would hope that they would see the value of it and support your interest.
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st33d
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Re: Convincing a University
« Reply #2 on: Jan 26th, 2005, 12:43pm » |
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Our Mac networks guy is reviewing Processing. He says he won't be able to put it on if it installs down to the kernel. He also has reservations about the Beta stage of the software, he has a network to protect. Anything to dissuade his fears would be of help.
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fry
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Re: Convincing a University
« Reply #3 on: Jan 26th, 2005, 3:40pm » |
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it doesn't install much of anything (much less down to the kernel), except into its own directory. in fact, with 69 and earlier, it may be more fo a pain to have it "installed" since the app needs to write to its application directory (something fixed in 70+) for preferences and the sketchbook. typically it would sit in /Applications on the mac, whcih is usually locked down to prevent writing.
you could instead put it somewhere that people can write to it directly (i.e. having students download it to their own folders, if they have that) and it wouldn't need to be installed by a sysadmin at all (though you'd still want to let them know).
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st33d
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Re: Convincing a University
« Reply #4 on: Mar 27th, 2005, 12:03am » |
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I had an absolute pain of a day getting this done the other week but I managed to get the API on to one of the swish computers. Luckily our digital media lab has a few PCs that aren't owned by I.T. and subject to the open access policy (this policy says I can't install software on one machine, it has to be on all of them or I risk excluding people from that machine). Other issues such as administrative access to the PC were eventually overcome.
So now one of the machines in the DAVC has the Processing API and I can flit from the digital and printmaking departments at my pleasure. I recently took a Processing altered image into photo-etching. The result was a beautifully embossed intaglio print (much nicer than a computer print out).
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