Prototyping 8 Jan 2013

Morning: Kurenniemi

Dataradio

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)