Course Home and Latest News

Another Book Being Written via Github: This One's for Kids

April 19, 2010

Matt found this one, Programming for Kids. The repo is at http://github.com/napcs/programming_for_kids

Git for Writers Wiki Page

March 15, 2010
It's here: GitForWriters. Add other pages as necessary to structure and share ideas, pose questions, and so on.

Some Additional Ruby References

February 9, 2010

• Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby, an odd but near-classic introduction to Ruby
• Mark Slagell's Ruby User's Guide, a compact but at times overly technical introduction

Reading Questions List

January 25, 2010

Each week, reading questions appear on the given week's page (e.g., week one, week two). But each week's reading questions can also be found on the master list of reading questions.

First Night of Class

January 11, 2010

Welcome to the course website for COM532: Rhetoric of Technology. You'll want to bookmark this site for future reference; beyond containing the policies for successful completion of the course, it also contains the course calendar with each week's class agenda and readings and activities for the next meeting. We'll go over both the policies and the calendar tonight.

One of the other important orders of business tonight will be for everyone to register on the wiki. A top-secret invitation code will be given in class that you'll need to register; please set your username (aka "wiki name") as your first name and last initial (e.g., Karl Stolley is KarlS, Jane Smith is JaneS and so on). Read more about naming conventions on the wiki. This will help keep everyone clear on who's doing what on the wiki, while also avoiding having this site show up in a Google search for your full name.

We'll also make sure everyone sets up an hCard for signing pages.

(By next week, edit your page with a short introduction to the class, and then add your name on the Course Members page in alphabetical order. See the WikiHelp page for more information on using the wiki.)

Finally, we'll spend some time tonight setting up a few other course technologies and covering what's expected of you for next week.

Again, welcome to the course.--Karl