Future

A good text editor is a fundamental tool in a networked media designer's toolkit.

Intro to gedit, plugin architecture. Example: use apt-get to install common gedit plugins, switch them on in the interface (session manager, regex search / replace)

Text wrap hide / show
Writing your own plugin (later?)

People make their own bin...

Custom media players

Media pipelines, like building a simple "shuffle player" with mplayer, find command.

plsplay script.

find . -iname "*.ogg" -or -iname "*.mp3" | mplayer -shuffle -playlist -

Unfortunately this messes up stdin controls of mplayer though, so a temp file of some sort would be handy...

find . -iname "*.ogg" -or -iname "*.mp3" > playlist; mplayer -shuffle -playlist playlist

http://blogoscoped.com/prejudice/

This page is a scratchpad for idea for future classes.

this page is under construction ;)

In 1.02 I drew a parse tree to show how expressions in Python get reduced to simple operations that work on just two things at a time.

Exercise: Produce a function/tool to extract the colors of a website (those listed in CSS, etc.) and produce a palette (both visual, and CSS/text) -- useful!

Assignment: select a piece of music that seems "algorithmic" in some way -- write a set of functions that "perform" / or recreate (or give instructions for performing) this piece of music (cf. Clapping Music, possible post-exercise to music lyric writing loops)