Computing

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Welcome to Bennington’s Computing discipline.
Joe Holt is the teacher.

Then we have computer science. It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with “bits” in a flow of information traveling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

— Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

[edit] Courses

• Transforming Thoughts into Code, Spring 2008.
• The Augmented Library, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.
• Code Critique, ongoing.

[edit] Futures

• Logic Machines 10, Fall 2008.
• Telemetry, Spring 2009.
• Course ideas.

[edit] Previous Courses

• Music, Interactivity and Technology, Spring 2007.
• The Arcades Project, Spring 2007.

• Logic Machines, Fall 2006.
• Experiments in Mixed Reality, Fall 2006.
• Code Critique, Fall 2006.

• Coding Like You Mean It, Spring 2006.
• Code Critique, Spring 2006.
• The Microprocessor Documentation Tutorial, Spring 2006.
• The Typography Tutorial, Spring 2006.
• Heather’s independent study, FWT 2006.

• Logic Machines, Fall 2005.
• Code and Creativity, Fall 2005.

• Logic Machines, Spring 2005.
• Building a Better Bennington, Spring 2005.

[edit] Notes

• Index of articles, lesson notes and files.
• What is a computer? Well?
• Computing on loan.
• Network accounts.
• Notes about CS curriculum at other schools.
• Improving the campus network and computing experience.
• The JoeProcessor3000 article for Make magazine.
• More of Joe’s Computer Science notes.
• Random Access.
• Copyfighting.
• Computing's svn-o-rama.

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    you.speak_up
else
    you.get(WHAT_YOU_DESERVE)
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Why “Computing” instead of “Computer Science”? Computer Science is no more about computers than Astronomy is about telescopes. (Also, “Writer Science”? “Painter Science”?)