Content tagged "programming"
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Posted by Elizabeth Borneman S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2020
Podcast and video: Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Bers describes current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Event: Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre, Nick Montfort and Elizabeth Borneman
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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Event: Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Event: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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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Posted by Ricarose Roque, Sayamindu Dasgupta and Sasha Costanza-Chock
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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Posted by Nick Montfort
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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Event: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015
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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Event: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Beginning Exploratory Programming
How to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
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Posted by Chris Peterson S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
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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Event: Thursday, May 9, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
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Event: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Event: Friday, February 20, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
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.