9-4 4) Reading on "New Media Arts, The Do-it-yourself Movement and the Importance of Making

Computer programming has been a crucial skill for working in the field.  To understand software and its impact on culture is a basis for understanding and contributes to contemporary society. Processing is a popular tool created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas, which is an open source programming language for creating animations, images, and interactions used by youths, artists,designers , researchers and hobbyist. Arduino or Modkit is also popular for creating programs that will facilitate interaction with an external object such as a robot or a machine.
Scratch is a novice friendly design for teens particularly due to its media for teens  because of its media rich capabilities. It uses a building block command structure and eliminates the need to memorize bits of code to program. The benefits of students to design new games is to become literate in the field and the knowing game components is equally as important. Games provide context to learn about the arts . In the Art Academy for Nintendo DSi platform as well as 3D modeling ad elements of architecture as seen in Quest Attends.