One of the best electives I took in my CSE program was Art in Code. We covered Processing and Arduino and the only required textbook was Making Things Talk. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Things-Talk-Practical-Connecti...

These tools were designed to be accessible to non-programmers and had our entire cross-disciplinary class making games, interacting with hardware, and getting inspired to find new ways to interact with computers. I wish this class had been required by every first-year CSE student.