Class 10 April 04 2016:

We have Two classes, and Three weeks before final projects are due.

Announcements?

• DONT LET ME LEAVE MY POWER CORD !!!

• Complete TRACE (Teacher Rating and Course Evaluation) for ARTG 6100 : Information Design Studio 2 02 (Studio). Can do it with a phone, whatever. Anonymous responses. Help me improve this course.

• ANNUAL ART + DESIGN DINNER April 14th 6-9 pm. Signup @ 239 Ryder

• Angus Forbes – Interrogating Complexity April 6, 12:00 pm 320 Ryder

Remainging Schedule:

• TODAY: Jessie and Patric present.
• Apr 11: Ryan, Navi, Lia
• Apr 18: Vacation
• Apr 25(?): Final Presentations. TBD: Two finals in one day?

Presentations from Jessie and Patric.

Words of Advice

• The 'todo after classes end list'.
• Visibility of Dietmar & IDV program
• Importance of being visible
  • website / gh-pages
  • book to hand to people
• Backup your work like a maniac.
  • Google drive, USB, dropbox, box, GITHUB. (github pages / jeckyl)
• Calm steady work, eg: David Bull's Ukiyo-e

Fixing common git issues:

• simple command-line tutorial for git.
  • git status
  • git branch -a
  • git stash
  • git stash apply
  • git reset --hard COPY FILES FIRST.
  • git pull
  • git rebase

Working with Python to search Flickr

• Quick tour of python
  • Whitespace sensitive
  • Including libraries
  • Defining functions
  • Defining classes
• If you want to experiment with these Flickr examples:
  • Install PIP sudo easy_install pip
  • Install the dependencies sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Try using pycharm by Jet Brains.
• The most popular flickr python library
• The Flickr API documentation

Categorizing Data in Python

Categorizing Data in Javascript with lowdash

• [lowdash documentation]

Next week, Refinements: