juliendorra

This is part of a short series of articles on Coding Goûter. Read them on ils.sont.la

You are awakened by your phone, you start the washing machine. Oh look, a new fully automated train in the metro. At lunch you pay with your credit card. In the evening you enjoy the lights on the Eiffel Tower. It’s an endless list. There is not an hour of our life (one minute?) without a programmer participating in it by writing… code.

This is part of a short series of articles on Coding Goûter. Read them on ils.sont.la

Coding Goûter – “Goûter” being the french for a children afternoon snack – is a monthly event where children and their parents put their hands on various programming tools, algorithmic games and puzzles, development environments, languages. And as it’s an afternoon snack, we eat cakes and candies throughout the afternoon!

À l’occasion des Coding Goûters, je publie une courte série d’article. Retrouvez-les sur ils.sont.la
Voici un aveu: j’ai été un jeune programmeur. Entre 9 et 13 ans, j’ai appris et programmé en BASIC puis en Pascal. Oui, mes parents étaient au courant.

À l’occasion du second Coding Goûter, je publie une courte série d’article. Retrouvez-les sur ils.sont.la

À l’occasion du second Coding Goûter, je publie une courte série d’article. Retrouvez-les sur ils.sont.la
Le Coding Goûter est un rendez-vous mensuel où des enfants et leurs parents s’emparent de différents outils de programmations, des jeux et puzzles algorithmiques, des environnements de développements, des langages. Et comme c’est un goûter, on y mange  des gâteaux et des bonbons tout au long de l’après-midi !

«Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing»

«Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts. We work with schools and teachers to integrate Bootstrap into their algebra classes and technology programs, as well as parents and afterschool programs across the country.»

«Program by Design is an innovative project for computing education that combines motivation with principles. On the surface we use engaging contexts—our “hello world” program is an animation, and students have the opportunity to program games, mashups, phones, etc.—while teaching a principled and scalable approach to computing. We have spent over fifteen years developing this curriculum, and have offerings at the middle-school, high-school and university levels (roughly, ages 10 and above). Our material is even used for in-house corporate training.»

The blind model is a photo session in which the model can only see what the camera sees.
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After my first t-shirts series, here is another one that I am prototyping. This series play with the lexicon from gender studies and queer political movements. They created new words to identify old and new behaviors that weren’t named. I used this lexicon, making labels that would at first be perceived as oxymorons, social impossibility - or at least revealing something very odd about the wearer.

There is not that much of life debuggers yet, just over fifty, but a couple of people already told me that the interface is oppressive, confusing. And that I don’t give enough information on the home page for people to understand the project, before they sign-in. It’s true, and I don’t want to avoid that!

Last year I worked on the development of a DVD Game title, in a small multimedia studio of around a dozen people.
One of the most fascinating tool that we used was a bug tracker. A bug tracking system is a resolution oriented project manager, with a very strong emphasis on ultra-communication through a web and e-mail based interface. Every single problem in the project is supposed to be filed, commented, revised, fixed, then closed.

I started to think about making T-shirt series some years ago. I had an intense rebound on that last year, with a lot of potential motifs and sketches. But I wasn’t sure about the way to print them. It was supposed to be limited editions, or better said, each T-shirt would be a one-off. Standard transfers do not look good enough. Silkscreening is not a light enough process to experiment. So… It was all postponed.