Course Information
Course Code	IASC 1P00 (also offered as APCO 1P00)
Course Title	Introduction to Media Computation
Description	Programming by example, encoding and manipulating pictures (such as grayscale and colour replacement), pixel manipulation (such as red eye and mirroring), designing and debugging, text manipulation with HTML, file processing, automatic generation and manipulation of web pages, and sound processing (such as encoding, volume manipulation and splicing).
Course Format	Lectures, 3 hours per week; lab, 2 hours per week; tutorial, 1 hour per week.
Restrictions	not open to COSC (single or combined), BCB, CAST and CNET majors.
Notes	prior computer experience is not required.