Monday Conj unsession planning

[Bridget Hillyer]

Hi all.

Reminder that we will have a planning meeting for the Conj unsession on Monday, Nov. 17 at 8pm ET. Email me or reply here if you would like me to put you on the invite. Anyone is welcome who is interested.

Bridget

[Yoko Harada]

Hi Bridget,

Add me in if I'm not on the list.

- Yoko

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[Bridget Hillyer]

Last minute reminder - please feel free to join us! 11/17, 8pm ET/5pm PT.

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/calendar/YnJpZGdldC5oaWxseWVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ.dnnbfcb2f9fovfhab60tnjkifg

[Bridget Hillyer]

Notes from the 11/17 Conj unsession planning meeting.

Attended: Yoko, Katherine, and Bridget

Unsession outline:

1. Intro to ClojureBridge (3 min)

2. How to run a workshop w/pointers to resources (3 min)

3. What works, what's challenging in a workshop - Katherine (5 min)
4. Intro to curriculum, history of curriculum (3 min)

5. Goals for new advanced Quil app (5 min)

6. Hack session! - group people by ClojureBridge experience? maybe spread the people who have experience with workshops amongst the groups? Read the room and organize accordingly

Goals for the new advance Quil app - cover these concepts

* Data structures: maps, vectors

* Use some core functions - identify these

* Use map and/or reduce

* Define functions

* If

* Read a file of data (or call an api)

Quil sketch examples to show for inspiration:

http://www.openprocessing.org/

http://processingjs.org/learning/basic/arctangent/

https://github.com/cognitect/clojure-conj/wiki/Clojure-conj-2014-Unsessions

http://processingjs.org/learning/basic/arctangent/

https://github.com/quil/quil-examples

[Yoko Harada]

Looks like a good plan.

Enjoy the conference!

and I'm looking forward to hearing about this unsession result, what went good, what was challenging, etc. :)

- Yoko

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[Yoko Harada]

I got a time and wrote a sample code and story.

https://github.com/yokolet/drawing/blob/master/curriculum/create-something.md

The code is  under https://github.com/yokolet/drawing/blob/master/src/drawing/

and two images are under https://github.com/yokolet/drawing/tree/master/images

Maybe images are a bit big, so I'll make those smaller.

Also, I'll add some more tweak and story.

- Yoko

[Sean Corfield]

Nice! The images were a reasonable size for me (but I have a giant screen so it’s hard to tell).

I like the progression and the explanation of each step. The animation gives plenty of scope for playing around (like maybe having a breeze and having the snowflakes drift off to the right, or having more of them, or randomizing their speeds…).

Sean

[Yoko Harada]

Thanks!

Yes, randomization is one of later step topics in my mind. To drift the snowflake, state should maintain x params also. So, more map handling.

Also, refactoring can be a topic.

I will update soon.

- Yoko

[Bridget Hillyer]

That's awesome! I really like the storytelling aspect, too. 

I'm going to use my hack time at the unsession tonight working through this. :) !!

[David Chambers]

> I really like the storytelling aspect, too.

I do, too. :)

[Bridget Hillyer]

Hi everyone.

On Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:37:03 PM UTC-5, Yoko Harada wrote:

I got a time and wrote a sample code and story.

https://github.com/yokolet/drawing/blob/master/curriculum/create-something.md

First, this is awesome. I think this is a really nice approach, and I like everything about it from what I have looked at so far.  I won't be able to look at it closer until next weekend, but I will provide feedback then.

Second, Conj unsession report! We had about 25 people there. We split up, and each of the groups ended up talking about ideas for advanced Quil curriculum apps. Katherine is collecting those idea reports. Who knows what will come of any of those. My hope is that maybe someone who attended the unsession will be inspired to come help work with us on the curriculum. Stu Halloway attended and had all kinds of ideas, including pointing us to this:

http://natureofcode.com/ It is a whole curriculum around Processing, so probably has some good inspiration.

Bridget

Bridget

[Yoko Harada]

Thanks Bridget and David for the feedback.

It sounds the ClojureBridge unsession went good. That's awesome.

I'll keep working on that Quil app a bit more then send a pull request.

Also, I'm looking forward the report of the unsession.

- Yoko

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[Yoko Harada]

Hi all,

I just made a pull request, https://github.com/ClojureBridge/drawing/pull/8 . I thought I could do more, but turned out animation was not easy.

I added random-ness to x parameters, then the animation started flickering. I did a small tweak (changed frame-rate to 30, set bigger speeds), but still the image was flickering. If someone here solves the problem, please feel free to extend the story.

But, I think the current story and code are good enough for an addition to current quil sample. Please have a look. Also, you can read the story here, https://github.com/yokolet/drawing/blob/master/curriculum/create-something.md .

- Yoko

[Bridget Hillyer]

I worked through your addition to the quil curriculum, Yoko, and I love it. I did some copyediting, which is in a PR to the drawing repo. I think this should be the advanced version of the capstone app unless someone else has another idea.

Bridget