Content tagged "programming"
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Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Nick Montfort, “Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
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Podcast: Christopher Weaver, “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
Weaver, founder of Bethesda Softworks, discusses how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
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Exploratory Programming Workshop
Nick Montfort will lead participants in exploring computer programs through modification and as they start learning the fundamentals of programming
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Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community
“By supporting channels for dutiful citizenship by way of policy, design decisions, or changing governance models, designers can create channels that foster dutiful citizenship while connecting with youth interests.”
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Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics.
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Knitting for Programmers
“A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing.”
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Beginning Exploratory Programming
How to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
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So @mitblogs_ebooks exists
“In making @mitblogs_ebooks, I learned a lot, and sometimes the thing I made even makes me laugh because of how weird it is.”
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Co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
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Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object
Let’s talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let’s raise the questions that need to be raised.
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Nick Montfort publishes “Sea and Spar Between”, a Dickinson+Melville poetry generator
Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland publish Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator based on text from the poems of Emily Dickinson and Melville’s Moby-Dick.
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Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narration
Nick Montfort on a new interactive fiction system that draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating.
