how i learnt to love numbers
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15 April 2010Presentation to Girl Geek Dinners in York on my personal journey through creativity and computing, and my experience of being an artist and a geek.Filmed as part of the UKRC/WYLLN 'Inspiring Women' project.TRANSCRIPT
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How I learnt to love numbers My personal experience of creativity
and computing
@iamhelenharrop @iamcreative
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http://www.firebox.com/product/624/Postcode-Puzzles
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I wanted to be a spy
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I wanted to be a spy
• ‘How to be a spy’ books
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I wanted to be a spy
• ‘How to be a spy’ books
• Ciphers
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I wanted to be a spy
• ‘How to be a spy’ books
• Ciphers
• Coded messages
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I wanted to be a spy
• ‘How to be a spy’ books
• Ciphers
• Coded messages
• Invisible ink
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I wanted to be a spy
• How to be a spy books
• Ciphers
• Coded messages
• Invisible ink
• Morse code
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Above all else though ...
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Above all else though ...
• I wanted to draw pictures
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Above all else though ...
• I wanted to draw pictures
• I wanted to write stories
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro (BBC Basic – 1981)
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“Do schools kill creativity?”
http://on.ted.com/8GMY
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A B C D E F G H I J K
L M N O P Q R S T
U V X Y Z
1 2 34 5 67 8 9
0
My world view until circa 1997
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• Something Changed
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• Something Changed
• I got creative again
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• Something Changed
• I got creative again
• And I became a geek
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“When I speak about computer programming as an art I am thinking
primarily of it as an art form, in an aesthetic sense. The chief goal of my
work is to help people learn how to write beautiful programs”
Art of Computer Programming(Don Knuth,1968)
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http://www.chris.com/ASCII/
ASCII Art
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http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948
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1948!!!!!!!!
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948
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• Fractal art
http://www.free-background-wallpaper.com/background-wallpaper-fractals.php
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• Fractal art
http://www.free-background-wallpaper.com/background-wallpaper-fractals.php
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• Fractal art
http://www.free-background-wallpaper.com/background-wallpaper-fractals.php
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• Scott Blake ‘Bar Code Jesus’ & ‘Bar code Elvis’
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Robert Hodgin + Arduino
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2007/08/29/biomimetic-butterflies/
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“Designed with Processing, made by mom”
http://roberthodgin.com/magnetoquilt/
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Adam Marks: calltrace: a live visualization of a running computer program. each box is a function in the code, each line is a function call.
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