Hello Again, World
Hello and welcome to the course website for DGST 301A: Creative Coding. This is a “special topics” class at the University of Mary Washington (“special topic...
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2018
All Good Things
This is it, the end of the semester. Or I guess it’s nearly the end because I write this, students are in their final week of classes and looking ahead to wh...
Learning Poetry, Learning Python, Avoiding Hurricanes
Currently, our school has decided to close tomorrow and Friday because of the incoming threat of Hurricane Florence. As such, our schedule will need to be ad...
Getting Your Bot Ready for the Workshop
On Friday, you created a Twitter account for your bot, and you got started programming your bot in Tracery with Cheap Bots Done Quick. There’s not school on ...
Getting started with Github, Twitter Bots, and Tracery
Class is underway! As you can see from the schedule, today’s main goals will be to take a quick tour of Github and introduce the basic concepts of a tool cal...
Hello, World
I don’t think I’ve ever launched a class website by saying, “Here it is! Everything is complete and all the details are finalized!”
Hello, World
I don’t think I’ve ever launched a class website by saying, “Here it is! Everything is complete and all the details are finalized!”
Get Onboard the Coding Train to Screensaverville!
We’ve been through a lot since my last post, including the conclusion of the poetry projects and the complete glitch gallery projects, which are soon going t...
Making it Rhyme
Our previous project dealt with free-verse constructions of random elements combined into imagist arrangements of juxtaposed appropriations, so for the curre...
Computers and the Poetics of Randomness
As we recover from the unexpected long weekend and return to our now-revised schedule, we’ll pick up a conversation on Monday, September 17 with some more Py...