Remember to finish Final Prep I in Vocat, and there is now a Vocat project titled “Homework Grade.”  This is where I want you to post the six screenshots that illustrate your three best homework submissions.  These three submissions (plus your Final Prep I and upcoming Final Prep II assignments) will be the primary basis for the homework portion of your final grade.

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I’ve made a list of some of the things we went over last class, and some of things that I didn’t have time to discuss:

I. Biologically Inspired Models of Intelligence @ Google – Ray Kurzweil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_nOddk01E

II. Nick Bostrom’s Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk

III. Vulcan’s Hammer : Philip K. Dick

A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan%27s_Hammer
B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tY6HppCvBE

IV. Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite? Thomas Pynchon 1984

 
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

V. Are Humans Necessary? Margaret Atwood

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/margaret-atwood-on-our-robotic-future.html

Your homework for Tuesday April 28th has been assigned on Vocat, the project title is “Final Prep I”.  Please log in to Vocat to see assignment details.

Thursday we will be talking about Serious Games, in preparation, try the following browser based game from MIT:

 

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http://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html

It uses mechanics found in vintage interactive fiction games of the 70s and early 80s to get users familiar with terminal commands.  This should be especially helpful for those of you that are using Mac and Linux platforms.

I’d like you to read the following Gamasutra article for Tuesday 4/21.

The SCUMM Diary: Stories behind one of the greatest game engines ever made

I’d like you to take about a page of notes on the article, and bring them to class on Tuesday.

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This will probably be your last assignment that doesn’t necessitate Vocat and is not related to your final project (though I’m not promising anything here).

Now that Vocat has been updated, after I finish grading all of the midterm proposals, we will mostly be looking at assignments that deal directly with your final projects, and you’ll be uploading screenshots of various levels of progress to Vocat.

We will discuss this further in class.

I’ve created a pretty exhaustive Bootstrap tutorial that covers what we discussed in past class lectures.

Please access it by visiting the following Github Repo:

https://github.com/EliCash82/bootstrapTutorial