WEEK
5 --
HUMAN RIGHTS, DATABASES, PARTICIPATORY CULTURES
Lecture:
"Information and Institutional Change:
The Case of Digital Libraries" by Philip E. Agre
"Broadcast and archive: human
rights documentation in the early digital age" by David Block
// Art project of the week:
Wikipedia.org http://wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia.
Started in January 2001, Wikipedia currently works on 188228 articles in the English version.
WEDNESDAY:
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING
- what is a programming language?
- programming vs. markup languages
- interpreted vs. compiled languages
- language examples: php, python, javascript, java, actionscript, C++, PERL
- "hello world" example in php