| Wk | Date | Topic | Read | Hand in to Web |
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All assignments are due by midnight on Friday
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| 1 | 1/9 - 1/13 |
Computation as a Medium |
NMR: Preface, Intros |
Class Survey Project 1: Class Web Page Written Assignment 1 |
| 2 | 1/16 - 1/20 |
Marshall McLuhan Ted Nelson Properties of the Medium |
NMR: McLuhan (13) NMR: Nelson (21) HoH: Chapter 3 |
Project 1 due |
| 3 | 1/23 - 1/27 |
Spatial Property Navigable Spaces Immersion |
NMR: Borges (1) HoH: Chapter 4 Planning Spaces Learning Inform |
Project 2: Inform IF game
Written Assignment 2 |
| 4 | 1/30 - 2/3 |
Participatory Property |
HoH: Chapter 5 Norman: Chapter 1 Participation and Affordances (slides) |
Project 2 due |
| 5 | 2/6 - 2/10 |
Encyclopedic Property Data & Data Networks |
NMR: Bush (2) NMR: Nelson (30) NMR: Berners-Lee (54) |
Project 3: VoiceXML
Written Assignment 3 |
| 6 | 2/13 - 2/17 |
Encyclopedic Property Code as Data |
The Semantic Web "Web 2.0" | Project 3 due |
| 7 | 2/20 - 2/24 |
Procedural Property Behavior & AI |
NMR: Turing (3) NMR: Weizenbaum (24) ELIZA online |
Project 4: Procedural Drawing Written Assignment 4 |
| 8 | 2/27 - 3/3 |
Procedural Property Behavior |
HoH: Chapter 8 Characters Fast-Food Stanislavsky |
Project 4 due |
| 9 | 3/6 - 3/10 | Procedural Property Procedural Literacy | NMR: Burroughs (7) NMR: Stallman (36) |
Project 5: Quartz Composer Project 6: Garage Band Written Assignment 5 |
| 10 | 3/13 - 3/17 |
Procedural Property Procedural Authorship |
NMR: The Oulipo (12) Surrealist games |
Projects 5 & 6 due |
| 11 | 3/20 - 3/24 | Spring Break | ||
| 12 | 3/27 - 3/31 |
Procedural Property The Poetics of Code |
Mateas and Montfort, A Box, Darkly Norman: Chapters 4, 5, 7 |
Project 7: Chef
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| 13 | 4/3 - 4/7 |
Procedural Property History |
NMR: Weiner (4) |
Project 7 due
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| 14 | 4/10 - 4/14 | Procedural Property Hardware and platforms |
Kaye & Goldberg (cont'd) Camper, Reveling in Restrictions GameBoy Advance More Atari 2600 |
Project 8: Atari 2600 Written Assignment 6 |
| 15 | 4/17 - 4/21 |
Games as Cultural Artifacts Final Projects |
NMR: Turkle (34) | Work on Project 8 |
| 16 | 4/24 - 4/28 | Final Project Presentations | Final Project Presentations | Project 8 due |
| 17 |
5/1 - 5/5 |
Final Exam, Demo Day | ||