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Art and Computer Programming
One of the great theoretical debates in computer programming is "Is programming art?" There are creative components certainly, and aesthetic aspects occasionally, but do programming's functional concerns push it more toward craft or engineering? John Littler recently cornered several well-known hackers for their opinions on the subject.
Consumer-Driven Entertainment
Niall McKay at Wired News uses Gore's Current.TV as a springboard for a discussion of ZedTV, the three-year-old Canadian Broadcasting Corporation experiment in consumer-driven television programming. The program calls itself "open-source television" because it not only encourages artists, bands, graphic artists, animators and filmmakers to use the ZeD website to submit content, but also invites them to use the site as an online portfolio. In return, the site streams about 5,000 short-form videos gathered for the show's 300 episodes. In the coming months, the site plans to launch a new function allowing users to stream a continuous random shuffle of music, art, animations and short videos to their desktops. The site claims 45,000 registered users. Short-form content -- be it viewer-submitted videos, independent film or computer animation -- is nearly ready for prime time, according to analysts. (I discussed ZedTV's decision to open source the software driving their website here...
Teaching Turing
Teaching Turing, by David A. Mellis and Aram Armstrong is an easy to understand, fun environment for learning about and programming Turing machines. The goal is to show people how Turing machines work by having them program a Turing machine themselves. The structure of Teaching Turing is divided into a series of levels with the earliest stages very clearly walking the user through the basic controls of a Turing machine, then working up to a series of graphic puzzles solved through programming. Users can move at their own pace through the levels, or proceed to free exploration and programming of the machine. Demo of Teaching Turing. PDF describing Teaching Turing. Related: A train that can calculate, the Cut-Out computer.
Morning Edition (NPR) - Profile: Donald Knuth's "The Art Of Computer Programming
March 14, 2005 -- STEVE INSKEEP Morning Edition (NPR) 03-14-2005 Profile: Donald Knuth's "The Art Of Computer Programming" Host: STEVE INSKEEP Time: 10:00-11:00 ...