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.

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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.

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