CS 330 Lecture 4 – Shell Scripting, Part 3
Dear students, Okay, let’s really get around to writing these shell scripts this time: Send files to limbo/recycling bin, rather than hell/non-existence. Send a mass email. Upload a local file to a web server and let the world see it. Let’s consider the shell as a programming language by discussing the following questions: What’s the […]
CS 330 Lecture 3 – Shell Scripting, Part 2
Dear students, We will continue to work with the shell, a world between worlds. A place full of dead mice. Let’s start with a reading review: What does it mean for a directory to be executable? Write a command to run program place, reading from file bets and appending its output to file log. What […]
Button
Two days before the semester started, I had one of those first-day-of-teaching nightmares. Sure enough, my wardrobe malfunctioned. This dream was probably inspired by my real pair of pants that had lost a button. When I told my wife about the dream, she offered to fix the pants. I told her the button was on […]
Crate
There’s something magical about wooden crates. Here’s a little program that recreates that magic on a small scale by subtracting away some triangular prisms from each face of a cube: I printed the model in wood filament, and I can almost see a miniature dock worker sitting on it and eating his lunch: A miniature […]
CS 318 Lab 2 – Core HTML
Dear students, Today we meet the core elements of an HTML document. The folks we meet today will stick with us the whole semester. They will help us give a coarse structure to our information. Before we meet them, I want to spend a moment helping us prepare for the oncoming complexity. Suppose you wrote […]
CS 330 Lecture 2 – Shello
Dear students, Let’s start with some quick review questions. Discuss these questions and their answers with a neighbor. If you don’t talk to someone about these, you fail the exercise. Java : methods :: shell : __________ What do strings look like in a shell script? Suppose I have username and domain variables. How do […]
CS 491 Meeting 1
Dear students, Welcome to CS 491: Game Development for Learning! I was recently reading about a software developer who was trying to teach his 7-year-old to code. I was reading it because I too had a 7-year-old and 5-year-old that I was trying to teach to code. What struck me about the article was that […]
CS 330 Lecture 1 – Main
Dear students, Welcome to CS 330! Think of a big graph, each of whose nodes is one of the many programming languages that have been invented. This class is not about those nodes. The graph also contains a node representing you. This class isn’t about you either. If it were, I wouldn’t be talking as […]
CS 318 Lab 1 – GitHub, Brackets, and Hellos
Dear students, Welcome to CS 318. In this class we learn to make web pages. We’ll learn some technologies like HTML5 and CSS, which are the primary tools of the web design trade. But more importantly, we’ll also grow our brains to think about how to structure information, separate style from content, and communicate through […]
CS 491 Project Milestones
This semester you and your team will be dropped into a box. Calories will be dropped in one side of the box, and a game will pop out the other. The game will meet a call-for-games challenge issued by Filament Games. The game should be fun but also help its players achieve certain learning objectives. […]