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Monday, December 5, 2011

Processing in Eclipse

Weird News After having to set up a Processing project in Eclipse after a long break from anything related to it, I decided to capture my notes to refer to later. I added it as a blog post to our lab's new website in hope it could help others, too.

A lot of us in the lab use Processing for a variety of things, such as prototyping game ideas.

Communication and Presentation Skills in Computer Science

Weird News In my TA workshop yesterday on communication skills, we had a discussion/brainstorm session that I captured in a document (shown on the projector) as we went along.

Procedural Rhetoric in Games

Weird News In the Carleton Game Dev Club meeting last week, a member showed a video from the Escapist series Extra Credit. Called Narrative Mechanics, this episode was all about how video games can tell a story through its mechanics alone, with no words at all.

The video and the discussion following it reminded me of Ian Bogost's concept of procedural rhetoric.

Unlocking the Clubhouse for Women in Computing

Weird News I spoke at the most recent book club session put on by Carleton's IEEE-WIE, WIL, and CU-WISE.

Patty Azzarello on Succeeding While Loving Life

Weird News The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI for short) Board of Advisers meeting last week was really inspirational.

The Difference One Woman Can Make

Weird News I was at the Board of Advisers meeting for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) last week in Mountain View when it struck me just how much of a difference one person can make.

Anita Borg, like so many others, saw the lack of women in computer science and decided to do something about it.