DESMA 252ACoding for the Arts
Design|Media Arts · 5 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to majors. Introduction to computer programming within context of art and design. Exploration of conceptual space enabled by electronic media through exercises, presentations, discussions, and critiques. Weekly exercises balance concept and technique to reveal potential of computer as medium and tool. Experience with programming basics includes procedural and object-oriented programming, two- and three-dimensional graphics, file I/O, color models, and image processing.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DESMA 252A
- DESMA 252CMateriality
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.