week/dates	examples, patches, homework assignments
week 1:	introduction to programming; basic sound playing and recording
fri-aug-28	prof sklar's lecture notes prof jannone's sound play example dissecting prof jannone's example: basics of playing sound in max playing sound and displaying playback time playing sound and controlling volume using gain sliders playing sound and controlling volume using a number object playing sound and displaying volume graphically prof jannone's sound record example dissecting prof jannone's example: sound record basics
week 2:	basic video playing and recording
fri-sep-4	prof jannone's video play example dissecting prof jannone's example: video play basics video play with metro video play with rate video play in a new window keyboard basics
week 3:	playing sound from a buffer
fri-sep-11	prof jannone's play sound from buffer example dissecting prof jannone's example: sound buffer basics sound buffer with a waveform normalizing with a waveform cropping with a waveform
fri-sep-18: no classes (holiday)
week 4:	keyboard control of sound and video; encapsulating and mixing
fri-sep-25	prof jannone's keyboard control of sound example prof jannone's keyboard control of video example prof jannone's mechanics abstraction, which goes with the keyboard control of video example prof jannone's mixing two images example prof jannone's menu, which goes with the mixing two images example prof jannone's autofade, which goes with the mixing two images example dissecting prof jannone's examples: coming soon!
week 5:	mouse control of sound and video
fri-oct-2	prof jannone's mouse control using mousestate example prof jannone's mouse control using lcd example dissecting prof jannone's examples: coming soon! homework includes your first "patch from scratch": Make a patch that counts the number of times a key is pressed and displays it to the user. BONUS: make a button that resets the count.
week 6:	miscellaneous objects (bangbang, counter, gate, histo, umenu)
fri-oct-9	in-class examples: counting vowels and consonants histo, gate and umenu homework: Create a patch where you cycle through eight different playback speeds by pressing a single key on the computer keyboard. You will need counter, and will use select in a new way. (For instance, the first time you hit your key, normal speed forward will be selected; the 2nd time you hit the key half speed backward will be selected, etc.) You choose the speeds and their order. Realize first with sound, using sfplay~ Realize again with sound, using groove~/buffer~ Realize using jit.qt.movie Modify the patch created above so that you can turn on and off a metro that cycles through the eight playback speeds automatically, moving to the next speed every second. Add to this patch controls (either keyboard keys, on-screen buttons, or message boxes) that will allow you to double and half the speed of the metro with a single click or button press. BONUS: use line or line~ as necessary to "ramp" between playback speeds. Create a means of controlling the ramp time.
week 7:	loop points
fri-oct-16	in-class examples: coll example looppoints with sound looppoints with video homework: Design a project you would like to realize in Max. Make it simple and useful. Do not begin to program it in Max; rather think it through abstractly: what do you want it to do exactly; how do you want it to function? What information do you need to give it, what information does it need to give you? Etc... Add two more stored pieces of information to the "looppoints with sound" example, above. Make sure you can store and retrieve this information. Things you can store? There are a lot; for instance: speed, loop state, volume, time over which speed changes, time over which volume changes, the mode of the waveform~, etc... BONUS: (there's always a bonus!) Why is the coll connected to the "select all" message box? What happens if you break that connection? Why is the button there? Does it do anything, or just provide visual feedback to the user?
week 8:	quiz; project introduction
fri-oct-23	examples to help you study: understanding how data is stored in MAX
week 9:	project 1 presentations
fri-oct-30
week 10:	graphics
fri-nov-6
week 11:	midi
fri-nov-13
week 12:	talking to hardware
fri-nov-20
fri-nov-27: no classes (thanksgiving)
week 13:	exam 2
fri-dec-4
week 14:	project 2 presentations
fri-dec-11
week 15:	project 2 presentations
fri-dec-18