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Mdst3705 2013-01-31-php3
- 1. PHP 3 Prof. Alvarado MDST 3705 31 January 2013
- 2. Business • Course Schedule posted – Include project days in April that may be used for more content, depending on progress
- 3. Review • Hackers = builders – Coders and Painters are both hackers – Building is a way of knowing (praxis) – Coders and Painters have different skills • Hacking involves awareness of two levels – LEVEL 1: Rules, methods, techniques – LEVEL 2: Effects, emergence, products – The two levels interact – The two levels are in tension
- 4. Programs like 10 PRINT and Conway’s Game of Life exemplify the difference and relationship between levels
- 8. Digital art is created by algorithms like these
- 9. What happens when we want to study “real” art and literature? How can we use the computer to help in the task of interpretation? (The digital humanities is about interpreting the art, literature, and other products of human intellectual labor)
- 10. We can view works of art and literature as patterns generated by rules
- 13. What about text?
- 14. Claude Shannon showed that English is governed by probabilities It is possible to generate sentences that almost make sense, using a random generator, like the 10 PRINT program, governed by probabilities for each letter or word