MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Live Coding, Robot Odyssey, Programming Game

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Multimedia
• Course: MMEDIA 1A03
• Professor: Andrea Zeffiro

Document Summary

Enables kids to explore the world of computing. Two versions: one that would be brought up on the computer and there were drawings on the screen, deluxe version: robot turtle was an actual robot turtle, make loops and geometric patterns. Encouraging them for new possibilities: it may seem that this project is about teaching kids to code, this wasn"t what it was about, it"s giving them experiences of computing to imagine a different feature on computing. Mid 1980 there was this game, it was called robot odyssey: nothing told you that it was a programming game, you just wired" the robot and would play iphone vs. android. Have so much computing power, but are far more closed and inviting of new things that they can be. That blinking cursor invited to imagine something different: but with the cellphones everything is already given in advance. There are people who are resisting in various ways.