Class 01 – 2016-09-13:

Materials:

• Pencils, index cards, sharpie, clip, stickers.
• Handout: how to survive a critique
• Handout: Problem set guide
• Handout: Problem set 1

Intro:

We are here to get to know each other, review the syllabus, talk about our goals, build a good culture, and get setup with the tools we need to participate in this class. I hope to learn your names.

Social guidelines

• Fear & impostor syndrome.
• Tone matters.
• Be empathetic.
• Assume good intentions.
• Honor questions.
• We won't know all the answers.
• Elevate your peers.

Question time:

• Backgrounds; who is from fine art, design, computation, or other?
• Student goals and expectations for sketching with code.
• Favorite class taken?
• Gauge interest level and existing experience with: Web development, Processing, D3, SVG, design, programming, critique, statistics, JSON, design process.
• Other interests design, research, or technical experience?

Your coach (me):

• Fine art Background, and computer interest from early age.
• UMASS CS mom
  • Walking in the snow.
  • Punch cards
  • Photography
• MassArt
  • SIM / Video
  • Walls
  • ICA
• Web crazed 90's
• MIT Media Lab / John Maeda
• SNiF
• Current Work life
• Printing
• Memory Issues

Personal data index cards

• Help me learn your names, interests, talents.
• I am visual learner, show me who you are.
• 3 cards
  • Pokémon card (baseball card).
    • Portrait
    • Stats
    • Headline
  • Mind Map. (Who are you?)
  • Geographic Map. (Where are you?)
• Pick one your index cards to talk about.

Discuss Data Cards

Break

Work expectations

• We do the dishes weekly:
  • read the readings.
  • do the problem sets.
  • review everything next week.
• We are experimenting, and taking risks.
• The secret of photography.
• Sketch everything first. (3x)
• Cheating when possible.
• Stealing with respect.

How problem sets work.

• Lets review the problem set guide

Lecture: Git, github, assignment submission.

• git theory
• git practice
  • from the shell
    • checkout
    • pull
    • branch
    • commit
    • pull request
  • with github desktop client
    • checkout
    • pull
    • branch
    • commit

Simple first pass on PS1

• install chrome
• install atom
• signup for slack
• signup for github account
• post github username to slack
• create new repo named 2016-SWC (name is important, case sensitive)
• use git clone to copy 2016-SWC into a lab, projects or similar folder.
• use git desktop to clone 2016-repo somewhere else
• make an 01/index.html page

Students work together to setup

• Windows: mostly follow this guide to installing node

  • chrome
  • Cygwin
  • Github desktop
  • atom editor
  • options for later
    • node & npm
    • npm install -g live-server

• OSX:

  • chrome
  • git bash &etc
  • Github desktop
  • atom editor
  • options for later
    • node & npm
    • npm install -g live-server