Code Lab Spring 2021

Tuesdays 10:00am–11:00am EST | Zoom

Code Lab provides foundational skills training for folks interested in computation basics. This won’t be for credit, it won’t assign projects, and it won’t require any commitment other than showing up. It’s about providing supplemntal technical instruction and support that you can incorporate into your class projects.

The lab section will be about 60 minutes and will meet every Tuesday over the course of this semester. Each meeting will consist of introducing a technical concept by demoing an example use case.

Nic Schumann (nschuman@risd.edu), Minkyoung Kim (mkim37@risd.edu), Marie Otsuka (motsuka@risd.edu)

You can also check out materials from our previous iteration of Code Lab in Spring 2020 for further reference.

Schedule

Code Lab Session 1: The JavaScript Toggle

April 6, 2021 | 🎥 recording

• how to control CSS with JavaScript, how JS works with your HTML/CSS

Code Lab Session 2: Using Randomness

April 13, 2021 | 🎥 recording | 🗒 recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3

• using Math.random for generative designs

Code Lab Session 3: Variable Fonts

April 20, 2021 | 🎥 recording | 🗒 readme

• working with Variable Fonts with JavaScript, input interactivity

Code Lab Session 4: APIs and JSON

April 27, 2021 | 🎥 recording | 🗒 readme

• integrating JavaScript libraries, storing data

Code Lab Session 5: Publishing to the Web

May 4, 2021 | 🎥 recording | 🗒 readme

• local vs. servers, Github, FTP, file paths and directories