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• This will disappoint you @rcveeder but here it is! if (((thisword->(thislength-4)=='s') && (thisword->(thislength-3)=='a') && (thisword->(thislength-2)=='u') && (thisword->(thislength-1)=…

  in Generating names for generated dinosaurs (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm February 2022
• Very good question, @markcmarino ... Jupyter Notebook is of course FLOSS, and I found a list of free/libre/open-source collaboration resources from early in the pandemic that may be useful. I’ll confess that I do use corporate Web services myself…

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm February 2022
• This is great to see! In my Inform interactive fiction Ad Verbum, from 2000, a child challenges you to a turn-basd game where you have to say more dinosaur than him. SPOILER! The child knows a lot of dinosaur names. Ad Verbum implements a dino…

  in Generating names for generated dinosaurs (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm February 2022
• Another way of expressing this idea, @warrensack , is I suppose that we should do a symptomatic reading of ELIZA/DOCTOR rather than a purely or mainly intentional one? That seems a productive way to carry out readings of many sort of texts, and of c…

  in The Original ELIZA in MAD-SLIP (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm February 2022
• I’m very glad you do this exercise, @markcmarino , and hope the students enjoy it! When I teach from Exploratory Programming I point students toward the “Memory Slam” pieces on my site, which are reimplementations of classic text generators, rather …

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm February 2022
• Yes! You all are working for The New York Times now (for free). &smiley;

  in Wordle Accessibility (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm February 2022
• This is a good experiment, I agree — I suggest writing (or trying to write) Hello World in non-English languages in Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, in both editions; the prompt is found in 7.2 in the second edition: Trying to…

  in "hello, [other language(s) than English] world!" (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm January 2022
• Thanks so much for this, @onebigear ! I love the video record of this enthusiasm. Here’s a link to some discussion of that project of mine, 101 BASIC Poems, that I mentioned and that is based on / plays on this book.

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• Thanks for this reply, @sarahghp ! I do a lot of my own creative programming in ES6 these days and founded an online magazine, Taper, for JavaScript work. And it’s a big plus that browsers are there by default and used by people all the time already…

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• That sense of “double double” is even mentioned in the book, @emenel , in 5.1! In the second edition I added a reference to In-N-Out Burger, which features a Double Double on their menu.

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• This is a great example, @onebigear ! I was influenced both indirectly and directly by such books as I wrote Exploratory Programming: Indirectly because I learned programming originally from these sorts of books, directly because they remain importa…

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• Whoops, @warrensack — that link is probably more than a decade out of date. I mean to include the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine link to the article.

  in The Original ELIZA in MAD-SLIP (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm January 2022
• Indeed, @warrensack, you offered some great insights and a technique that was important to 10 PRINT CHR$(202.5+RND(1)); GOTO 10 and is also important to a current project of mine. The last thanks we give in the book are “to Warren Sack for his Perl …

  in The Original ELIZA in MAD-SLIP (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm January 2022
• Glad you are using the book, @xtineburrough! I hope it goes well. To answer @warrensack ’s question about changes in the second edition, they range across addition of material, removal of material, revision of sections, technical updates, and reo…

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• I’m glad to discuss approaches to using the book as a teacher, @warrensack — thanks for this reply! Although not a prominent member of the Processing community, I am part of it, having done work in Processing since version 1. In Exploratory Progr…

  in Week 2: Exploratory Programming, Introduction Comment by nickm January 2022
• I showed this to a colleague on Friday who said “so, this is sacrilegious?” I’m curious to know if anyone else had the same sort of response.

  in Arf Magna (2022 Code Critique) by Nick Montfort Comment by nickm January 2022
• There’s a great deal to say here and you have the discussion off to a great start! I consider media archaeology (like platform studies) to be interested in a multi-layered view of software and hardware systems in their cultural and historical con…

  in BrainSim: Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (2022 Code Critique) Comment by nickm January 2022
• Hi, I’m Nick Montfort (he/him), delighted to be back for more! I live in NYC and develop computational art and poetry. My lab/studio is the Trope Tank. I teach at MIT. Since Alex McLean has already introduced himself, I’ll mention some aspects of my…

  in 2022 Introductions Comment by nickm January 2022
• Thanks to both of you, @barry.rountree and @jang. The best reply I can make is probably the one I offer here: https://nickm.com/post/2020/02/sea-and-spar-between-1-0-2/

  in Code Critique: Line 255 of Sea and Spar Between Comment by nickm February 2020
• Great examples and references! One extreme of “misleading” code when it’s intentionally obfuscated, and not written in a truly “malicious” way — obfuscation can of course be done for aesthetic/poetic reasons or just for fun. The work in the IOCCC…

  in Code Critique: What Python does when it's doing nothing. Comment by nickm January 2020
• I didn't mean to drive the conversation away from your main point, @barry.rountree, which is a good one. I was just answering @jeremydouglass’s last question. Another technical report I wrote, this one for CCSWG specifically, was actually more of…

  in Code Critique: What Python does when it's doing nothing. Comment by nickm January 2020
• There are some, @jeremydouglass. I have a 12-page technical report about null programs from 2013: “No Code: Null Programs.” It covers a 0-byte demo (in the demoscene sense) and a 0-byte quine that won IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Con…

  in Code Critique: What Python does when it's doing nothing. Comment by nickm January 2020
• I'm Nick Montfort (he/him), computational poet, digital media scholar. My computational poems are made of code that is short and available as free software, open to study and modification. I just finished with Synchrony, a demoparty (digital art …

  in Introduce yourself Comment by nickm January 2020
• I want to echo one of Jeremy's suggestions, which is not looking within a page itself but looking at how many versions of a page, in different languages, exist. This is easy to do on Wikipedia for instance but can also be done on university sites: L…

  in Code Critique: analysing code from a website Comment by nickm February 2018
• Mark, several other people wrote code as part of their critical inquiry in writing 10 PRINT. I wrote an Apple II port, Mark Sample wrote a TRS-80 Color Computer port, and Ian Bogost wrote the most difficult of the ports, to Atari VCS 6502 assembly. …

  in Week 2: Creative and Critical Coding (Main thread) Comment by nickm January 2018
• Allison, you're right of course that any interface models and facilitates a particular type of input, and that this can be assistive, or in some cases not. (In this interface I get a squiggly red line indicating that "assistive" isn't a properly spe…

  in Sexist Autocomplete: Interventions? Comment by nickm January 2018
• I just wanted to suggest that while these exceptions are fascinating and worth concern, we should also looking beyond the particular implementation of autocomplete, even with Google's interesting variations on it. When wondering why these results ap…

  in Sexist Autocomplete: Interventions? Comment by nickm January 2018
• I'm Nick Montfort, participant in CCSWG since the beginning and co-author & organizer of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1); : GOTO 10, an MIT Press book that started as a CCSWG thread. I'm professor of digital media at MIT. Most recent books: The Truel…

  in Introductions Comment by nickm January 2018