Prototyping 8 Jan 2013

Morning: Kurenniemi

Dataradio

wikipedia:Erkki Kurenniemi

• IRQ
• IRC
• Protocol
• Pipelines: Creating novel connections between disparate systems
• Crash test!
• "Something for free": Example of topic setting / fn like nick rename.

IRC

Is a free protocol

• Not owned by a company (proprietary)
• Anyone can write/distribute their own servers and/or clients.

A protocol is a social agreement upon a technical standard. A precise description that allows different people to write implementations (code) separately that should be able to interoperate (work together).

Afternoon: Chatbot

Local IRC

Exercise: Chatbot using Python and IRC, a code library released as free software

To use python we will be running our script from the command line.

some sample ideas:

• reversebot
• yesbot (agrees with everything *you* say)
• beavisbot (comments on anything suggestive)