Assignments

Course Participation

Course participation will occur primarily through class discussions in Zoom and the course instance of Slack. “Participation” is a broad category of activities that include but are not limited to constructively speaking up or using chat in videoconferencing sessions; discussing readings and technical assignments in Slack; bringing outside readings and knowledge into Slack; and seeking technical support and working with classmates to problem-solve in the #tech-support Slack channel.

Weekly Meme Assignments

Every Monday, students will create and post a meme (using a site like Imgflip) or post a gif with textual clarification (try searching Giphy) to the class Slack. The meme/gif should speak to something they read/learned in the past week for our course. These memes and gifs should be G, PG, or PG-13 rated. If you have any question about the appropriateness of a meme/gif, please DM it to before posting.

Skill-Building Mini Assignments

When you are ready to submit a mini assignment, you should post to the #mini-assignments channel in Slack. Alternatively, you may connect your repository to the Slack channel directly (in which case Slack will post about all commits/issues activity) using the command “/github subscribe owner/repo”

The three required mini assignments (1, 2, and 8) have stars after their due dates. These are initial due dates, with the expectation that each assignment may need to go through a round or two of revision afterwards. All assignments (including revisions) must be successfully completed by the last day of the semester (Mon, December 9).

Speaking of last minutes, the literal last minute to submit is 11:59pm on each due date, unless specifically noted otherwise.

  1. initialize a GitHub repository with the name “username.github.io” where “username” is your GitHub username; include a index.html file containing the text “hello world” – due Weds, September 11*
  2. create a text-only Twine story with at least 15 passages, export it as index.html, and commit the resulting file to your GitHub repository – due Weds, October 2*
  3. update your Twine story with multimedia (images, audio, and/or video) in at least 5 passages, export it as index.html, and commit the file changes to your GitHub repository – due Mon, October 7
  4. update your Twine story by changing colors and stylizing the text throughout, export it as index.html, and commit the file changes to your GitHub repository – due Weds, October 9
  5. update your Twine story with conditionals in at least 5 passages, export it as index.html, and commit the file changes to your GitHub repository – due Weds, October 16
  6. update your Twine story with variables in at least 5 passages, export it as index.html, and commit the file changes to your GitHub repository – due Mon, October 21
  7. update your Twine story with input in at least 5 passages, export it as index.html, and commit the file changes to your GitHub repository – due Weds, October 23
  8. create a readme.md file to explain the final contents of your GitHub repository – due Mon, October 28*

Final Project

Final projects will be done in small teams and have four components, with three interim deadlines before the final deadline. You will have access to the course Slack for coordination and can also use GitHub issues or projects. I can supply access to a Basecamp instance on request.

  1. Abstract (one paragraph on expected topic/narrative) – due Mon, October 21
  2. Annotated bibliography (you don’t need to have read everything yet!) – due Mon, October 28
  3. Storyboard (narrative outline and planned division of responsibilities) – due Mon, November 4
  4. Narrative (published Twine story)* – due Mon, December 2, in class

*NOTE: to publish your final Twine story, one of your teammates will need to set it up as index.html in their username.github.io repository – please rename the index.html file from the mini-assignments to “mini-assignments.html” so that I can continue to easily have access to it

Performance Analysis

  1. Final performance analysis – due by the end of our final exam period, Mon, December 16th at 4:15pm