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.
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
David and Ryan signed up for an independent study with me and designed and developed Jim's Confounding Endeavor, a dimension-twisting puzzler that puts more space in your brain. They submitted the game to Steam Greenlight. My only role was to demand that they include a story.
Recent Posts
- Block vs. Inline-block vs. Inline
- Bathroom Angles
- Coscars
- Cutting Corners
- Circle Dance
- Background Check
- Progress in Twoville
- Triangular Colors
- Power Set of Venn Diagrams
- Terra's Theme
- New Geometry
- Little Notebooks
- Un-safelinks
- Interpolants in Twoville
- VOICES 2019: Learning Music Theory through Code with Deltaphone
- See more...
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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