Front Door

Introduction

Welcome to the Spring 2013 session of Grinnell College's CSC 195.01, a special topics course entitled Technologies for Mediascripting. In this course, we will explore some of the many technologies that get used in my scholarship on scripting media applications. You can read the offical blurb for more details.

Participants in the course are expected to show up for all the weekly meetings and to do short (1-2 hours per week) readings and programming assignments between classes.

The Web site for the course is http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CSC195/2013S/. You can find all sorts of interesting things on the course web, and I'd encourage you to look there.

This is an experimental course. Among other things, this means that I expect to be updating the syllabus as the semester goes on.

Basics

Meets: Thursday, 1:15-2:05 p.m., Science 3819. Our alternate meeting time is Wednesdays from 11:00-11:50 a.m., in a place to be determined.

Instructor: Samuel A. Rebelsky, Science 3824. 269-4410 (office). 236-7445 (home).
Office hours (tentative): Wed 10:00-11:50, Thu 2:15-3:05, Fri 10:00-10:50.
I tend to follow an open door policy: Feel free to stop by when my door is open or to make an appointment for another time. I have children, so please do not call my house before 7 a.m. or after 10 p.m.

Grading

This course is offered for one credit is graded as S/D/F. All students who take the course are expected to

• attend at least twelve of the thirteen class meetings;
• do all assigned readings; and
• do the occasional short programming assignment.

Textbooks and Other Readings

All the readings for the class will be distributed in class. I may add links to them as the semester progresses.