Week 1

Introductions

First, tell us a bit about yourself

Your preferred name, your pronouns, maybe where you’re from, something your classmates might not know about you, one thing you want us to know?
Next, tell us about your path as a designer

How did you become interested in design, what are you hoping to get out of this course (or out of this program)?
Last, tell us (mainly me) about your technical side

How comfortable are you in code, have you put together a website before, what have been your challenges?

Let’s go through the syllabus, our approach, and our community agreement.

We’ll take a break here, for about 10 minutes. Please be back on time; we have a lot to cover.

We’re going to talk about the web, and why it will be our pathway into design and code.

Make sure to fill out your entry in the class list. This will help me a lot:

Our class
Also complete the survey (a couple of you still have not):

Semester start survey
Join the Slack channel and and say hi:

#section-f
Sign up for a GitHub account if you don’t have one! Do this with your newschool.edu email, then apply for the student benefits. You may use this GitHub account in your career, and you can always change your username (and add other email addresses) later. We’ll be using GitHub for our code.
Before we get into code, we’re going to read about it:

What Is Code?
Paul Ford, 2015

This is definitely Not Short, so please leave yourself enough time to get all the way through it. And then add your responses—which we will discuss, as a group, next class:

What Is Code? responses
Finally, come to class with three thematic ideas for your Harmonic Collection projects. We’ll be starting on them next week.