communication programming

Department of Communication Studies COMS 490 6 credit hours
Friday 8:45am - 11:30am, 2000 - 2001

 

NOTE Revised Second Term Syllabus HERE!

Professor Mary Flanagan | mary@maryflanagan.com http://www.maryflanagan.com/courses/cprog00.htm

This course studies the taxonomy of digital media from an information design and programming perspective. Special attention is given to authoring tools, scripting, hypermedia and hypertext applications in their current and developing digital forms. Individual or group projects are completed. Lectures and laboratory average six hours per week. Communication programming was one of the first courses to combine what once were diverse disciplines -- art and technology-- in Canada. This year, communication programming will take this "merging strategy" to new arenas. We will explore ephemeral and physical space, the networked and the standalone, the personal and the professional.

A complete version of the syllabus is available in .pdf format here.

Get your assignments here:

Fusion Lab Logo + Website
Pair Assignment-WebSite for nonprofit
Personal Project One-Open Topic
Interface Design Bootcamp (In Class Exercise)
Personal Project Two-Games as Art
Individual Project - Final Thesis Project

Meeting Sign Up Sheet

and don't forget that. . .
Contributions to class, Exercises, + Attendance are
a large factor in evaluation--30%! Let's Jam!

Note: You must have an email account + server space with concordia for this course. Go to CC 207 or H-925 with your id, get the account, and along with this you will get 5MB of space for your personal home page + assignments. The URL of your site will be http://alcor.concordia.ca/~your_userid/ . Name the root index.html.
You will ftp to: alcor.concordia.ca/~username

IP address is: 132.205.7.51