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 347
- Lab 22 - MP3 Player, Part II
- Lecture 22 - Router, Part II
- Lab 21 - MP3 Player, Part I
- Lecture 23 - Hosting User Files
- Lecture 21 - Router, Part I
- Lab 20 - GitHub Search, Really
- Lecture 20 - Today App: Client, Part II
- Lab 19 - GitHub Search
- Lecture 19 - Today App: Client, Part I
- Lab 18 - Express Chat
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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
Matt L. created this story of love and ice in a 2D game development class. The assignment was to a create a puzzler, a game with right answers.
Recent Posts
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.
Earpiece
Earpiece is a tool for composing sound effects. You shape the frequency and amplitude of an effect using mathematical functions sequenced—or pieced—together. Go make WAVs.
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.
Flexercise
Flexercise is a game for gaining facility with the Flexbox system for layout in CSS. Play it. The source code is freely available.
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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