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Title: TOC page_order: -2 **Title:** Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies, or Software Studies for Dummies **By**: Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox ## 0. Preface ## Chapter 1: Getting started * What is Javascript and why p5.js? * Setting up and Reading code and syntax * Hello world syntax * Free and Open-source software and culture * Mini-ex 1: Think About My First Program ## Chapter 2: Variable Geometry * Multi by David Reinfurt (cf. sundial project for next chapter) * Basics: coordination, variables, geometry, shapes/patterns, faces (with p5.playground) * Having fun, and not just for fun, with software, free speech and injurious words, bad jokes * Politics of emoticons, politics of representation, background of unicode and universal languages * Mini-ex 2: A fun face ## Chapter 3: Infinite loops * Artwork: Asterisk Painting (2013) by Bell John * Iterations: For/ While Loops * Conditional statements and Functions * Time related syntax, machine and human time (unix-epoch), clocks * Transform: translate(), rotate(), push/pop() * Temporalities: real-time, machine time, micro-time and just-in-time (live) coding (Ernst's essay - if... then - loop forever) * Mini-ex 3: Design a Throbber differently ## Chapter 4: Data Capture * Artwork: How We Act Together (2016) by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald (mention more in passing, not too much emphasis) * Mouse and Keyboard events * Web camera inputs: with clmtrackr.js library * Audio inputs: with p5.sound library * Tracking: The datafication of everything, including your habits (datafied research). * Mini-ex 4: CAPTURE ALL: Feedback machines ## Chapter 5: Object Orientation * Design work: TOFU GO by Francis Lam that inspires Winnie's simple version * Objects, Class, Behaviors and Arguments * Play objects: with p5.play library * Object-oriented thinking: cooking and coding with class struggle (food and recipes, cultural difference) * Mini-ex 5: Games with objects ## Chapter 6: Automatisms * The Game of Life (1970) by John Horton Conway / Langton's ant (1986) by Chris Langton + [automata I](https://isohale.com/Development-1) by Catherine Griffiths * (Commodore 64 Basic program: 10 PRINT) * Random(), Noise() * Rule-based and Emergent systems * Generators and other automatisms (genotypes), love letter generators * Mini-ex 6: A generative program ## Chapter 7: Vocable Code * Artwork: Vocable Code by Winnie Soon * Textuality: typography, text size, alignment and style * Parsing JSON text files * Codework: attention to names and poetics * Speaking and Queer Code * Mini-ex 7: Write and Generate an electronic literature ## Chapter 8: Que(e)ries * Artwork: Net Art Generator by Cornelia Sollfrank (authorship and copyright, image encryption) * Image processing: fetching, loading and display * Application Programming Interfaces * Data, Archives, Repositories, Libraries, Databases / Critical APIs across time (googlification of everything, literacy) * Mini-ex 8: Working with APIs ## Chapter 9: Flow Chart and Diagramming * Projects: The Status Project by Heath Bunting (in passing) + a series of flow charts (inc. vocable code) * cf. table of contents and other drawn diagrams (dean kenning's jackson 5 flowchart) * Receipts, Procedures, Algorithms * Mini-ex 9: Representing a program with a flowchart (check algorithm by Goffey is in refs) ## Chapter 10: Machine Learning * Personal assistants: Eliza (1964-1966) + elizabot.js version (2005) by Norbert Landsteiner * What is Machine Learning? * Machine prediction: Classification and Text generation * Experimenting ml5.js library * Ways of Machine Seeing, Reading and Processing ## Chapter 11: Programming Aesthetics/Aesthetic Programming * Machine learning generated text – based on the text in this book ## Indexing reference to: https://monoskop.org/media/text/? and Linda's work in Exe practice
