Projects for the ITP course Programming A to Z
In the week following my last update I have made significant of progress on my Smart Tiles block board. Over the weekend I was ready to start milling parts and worked up the courage to use the Othermill Pro available on the floor at ITP. The process of milling with a CNC is new to […]
Over the last week I have made substantial progress on my Smart Tiles project. I did some play testing with friends to solidify thoughts around the interface. I have also continued to slog away in Fusion 360, finishing and placing an order for the PCB with OSHPark, ordering components from DigiKey, and preparing materials and […]
Earlier this year I took an interest in developing an educational toy that builds on traditional wood letter blocks. Seeing my younger family members interacting with screens I noticed a gap between the experience of the tangible toys they were given, which were often monotonous, flashy, and not very responsive, and the educational apps they […]
This week we learned about context free grammars. This technique follows a structure similar to rules for Mad Libs where predefined words or segments are substituted. To make this easier in JavaScript I made use of a library developed by Kate Compton called Tracery. As my mental faculties were constrained while waiting for the results […]
This week in Programming A to Z we learned about Markov Chains as a method for generating new text based on a source text. Named after Adrey Markov, Markov Chains are a mathematical system to navigate between different “states” based on a probability table. On a granular level these tables show the number of times […]
Coming up with an idea for a bot is easy! Choosing one to make is hard. I pitched a dozen concepts to friends and family before setting on one that felt right. After much hemming and hawing hearing my husband mention his co-worker Adream triggered it. A dream! That was it! I have always had […]
This week for Programming A to Z I made an attempt at creating a word counting algorithm. Coming off of the first round of (Presidential)? debates I was feeling inspired to do some word counting to determine what words were most commonly said by each of the speakers. The transcript I was able to locate […]
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved – it’s the citizen who changes things. José Saramago This week for Programming A to Z I was asked to make use of “something external” in a browser-based text experiment. Having already explored the Datamuse API with a time rhyming site I turned […]
This week I learned something new about the search field in text editing applications. Like using the search or find function to navigate big chunks of text regular expressions allow you to search through a document but also provide a number of modifiers for search functions. I started my exploration of this new topic by […]