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godreamHey, MIT has a class on Modern Science Fiction! Wicked. "Students investigate various short stories from "the Golden Age" to "neuromantic" and postmodern science fiction: the 1950s to the present. Students write critical essays and their own works of science fiction, and submit critical analyses of each other's efforts in a roundtable workshop environment." And another in Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice -- "Techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. Study of the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time and of storyline. Analysis of the structure and evaluation of the literary qualities of computer-based narratives including hypertexts, adventure games, and classic artificial intelligence programs like Eliza. With this base, students use authoring systems to model a variety of narrative techniques and to create their own fictions. Knowledge of programming helpful but not necessary.". And -- I'll stop cut and pasting now -- but Digital Poetry! Screw computer science, I'm majoring in writing. :P OK, there are interesting course 6 classes too. More than a few. Yay, college!
In other news: so I have this unexpected day off tomorrow. Anyone wanna do something? -- I should probably, you know, actually call people if I want to get out of the house, but this whole passive thing is so much easier. Later I will, really. :P
In other news: so I have this unexpected day off tomorrow. Anyone wanna do something? -- I should probably, you know, actually call people if I want to get out of the house, but this whole passive thing is so much easier. Later I will, really. :P
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Date: 2004-06-25 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm not majoring in computer science in order to make database programs for some bank, or to make some networking client, or to do what it is that I'm currently doing right now at work. Call me crazy, if you like, (it would be accurate) but computer science and writing are basically synonymous to me. It's just a powerful (interactive!) storytelling tool.