Week 1 - CST205 - Up and running with Python and a nice mesh networking find

Week 1 - CST205 Multimedia Design and Programming (Python)

So what's new for this week? Well we covered a bunch of Python basics that are similar to other languages as far as functions go and keeping your program from popping up errors if you add { } or ; instead of using indentation for functions. This led to some interesting image manipulations as far as pixel color changes. What I liked about that is how nice the libraries were for opening an image and performing operations across every pixel. The code was pretty compact because of this. Below are two examples from  the exercise where we turned Commander Keen into grayscale, inverted the image, applied basic color filters, etc. 

Original Image

Converting to grayscale

Other than that we set up our groups github organization to get ready for when things speed up. Overall not that much going on this week though. What I did find though was Serval which looks nice. This is a cool looking open source project for building encrypted mesh networks where you can make calls, send messages, share files, etc. It looks like they could have a lot of good tricks to borrow for a garden light type communications network. From their github page it looks like they are still active so this seems like it could be a good resource for capstone ideas.