Hi, I'm Chris.
And I teach machines to do things. Also, I teach people how to teach machines at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Collected here are my course materials, research notes, and students' work.
CS 1
- CS1: Lecture 7 - What's Wrong With These?
- CS 148 Lab 3 - Math and String
- Homework 0 - The Git Sandwich
- CS 145 Lab 2 - Math and Strings
- Homework 0 - Updating SpecCheckers
- CS1: Lecture 6 - String
- CS1: Lecture 5 - Primitive Types
- CS1: Lecture 4 - Math Methods
- CS 148 Lab 2 - Scanner
- CS1: Lecture 3 - More Math
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Twoville
Twoville is a programming language for generating two-dimensional SVG images that can be fed into vinyl or laser cutters. It also supports animation at the syntactic level.
FML
FML is a utility that generates a sculpture of one's First, Middle and Last initials. Find the C, R, and J in the sculpture above. Make your own!
Rainbox
Rainbox is a little puzzle game I wrote for my son's 8th birthday. A pixelated, rainbow-colored box has broken apart, and you must put it back together.
Tangle
Tangle is a tool I wrote to help my eight-year-old son think about multiplying through a spatial lens.
Student Gallery
In a 2D game development class, I asked students to remake an arcade game of yore. Matt L. made Dragon Fire, a remake of Fire, a game for the Nintendo Game & Watch. In addition to being a skillful developer, Matt is married to a graphic designer, which makes for a great game.
Recent Posts
- VOICES 2019: Learning Music Theory through Code with Deltaphone
- Starring Matariki
- Triadic Chords in Deltaphone
- SCSI 2019: Computational Music
- Networking with Pure Data
- Timbre and Harmonics
- Changing Instruments
- Counting in Time
- Annotations in Twoville
- Playing Sound Files Repeatedly
- Music Mouse, Part VI
- Music Mouse, Part V
- Music Mouse, Part IV
- Music Mouse, Part III
- Music Mouse, Part II
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Madeup
Madeup is a programming language for making things up—literally. Programmers trace out shapes algorithmically and then turn them into solids that can be printed on a 3D printer.
Deltaphone
Deltaphone is a blocks-based programming language that extends the relative movement of turtle geometry into music. Composer-programmers express their tunes using intervals or chromatic or diatonic offsets.
Trux Falsy
Trux Falsy is a game for practicing boolean logic. You should play it. The source code is freely available. A lot of it was hastily written in Peru.
Unduo
Unduo is a two-player Snake game built by my sons at the keyboard and me by their side. But there's only one snake. Two heads are better than one, right?
Totally
Totally is a tool I wrote to help my five-year-old son think about adding through a spatial lens.
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