| Week | Date | Topic | Read/Explore | Hand in to Web | |
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All assignments are due by 5pm on Friday.
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| 1 | 8/22 - 8/26 | Computation as a Medium |
NMR: Preface, Intros NMR: McLuhan (13) |
Class Survey Project 1: Class Web Page Written Assignment 1 |
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| 2 | 8/29 - 9/2 | Properties of the Medium |
HoH: Chapter 3 NMR: Computer Lib/Dream Machines (21) |
Project 1 due | |
| 3 | 9/5 - 9/9 | Spatial Property |
NMR: Borges (1) HoH: Chapter 4 |
Project 2: Inform IF game
Written Assignment 2 (Zork/Myst/GTA III/Zelda Wind Waker) | |
| 4 | 9/12 - 9/16 | Spatial Property Information space | NMR: Nelson (30) | Project 2 due | |
| 5 | 9/19 - 9/23 | Participatory Property Computing in context |
NMR: Stallman (36) HoH: Chapter 5 |
Project 3: VoiceXML App
Written Assignment 3 (Wikipedia) | |
| 6 | 9/26 - 9/30 | Encyclopedic Property Data networks Code as Data |
NMR: Bush (2) Berners-Lee (54) |
Project 3 due | |
| 7 | 10/3 - 10/7 | Procedural Property Behavior |
NMR: Turing (3) Weizenbaum (24) |
Project 4: Character Maker
Written Assignment 4 (IM) | |
| 8 | 10/10 - 10/14 | Procedural Property Behavior | HoH: Chapter 8 | Project 4 due | |
| 9 |
10/17 - 10/21 Fall Recess |
Procedural Property Extra-computational procedurality | NMR: Weiner (4) |
Project 5: GarageBand composition
Written Assignment 5 (Everyday algorithms) | |
| 10 | 10/24 - 10/28 | Procedural Property Procedural Authorship | NMR: The Oulipo (12) | Project 5 due | |
| 11 | 10/31 - 11/4 | Procedural Property Procedural Authorship | NMR: Burroughs (7) | Project 6: Quartz Composer | |
| 12 | 11/7 - 11/11 | Procedural Property History | NMR: Engelbart (8) | Project 6 due | |
| 13 | 11/14 - 11/18 | The Poetics of Code | HoH: Chapter 7 |
Project 7: Chef program
Written Assignment 6 (Future computational task) | |
| 14 |
11/21 - 11/25 Thanksgiving |
Digital media as cultural artifacts | NMR: Turkle (34) | Project 7 due | |
| 15 | 11/28 - 12/2 | Future Visions | NMR: Kaye & Goldberg (26) | Project 8: Atari VCS game (Group project) | |
| 16 | 12/5 - 12/9 | Project 8 due | |||
| 17 |
12/12 - 12/16 Demo Day Finals Week |
Final Exam | |||