daniel shiffman

Today in my Programming from A to Z course we’ll be going over how to program a simple concordance in Java storing words in a binary search tree. It may be hairy, but I hope it proves to be a useful means for improving the programming skills of ITP students. . . if any [...]

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Some rather poorly shot and quickly slapped together footage from the installation in Savannah.

Photos from Savannah
I’m in Savannah, GA working on installing some of my work at the new Jepson Center for the Arts, which will have its grand opening in March, 2006.

week 2 tutorial — Vectors
Week two of the nature of code tutorials is up. I guess I don’t really need to post announcements here each time a new tutorial goes up, but at least it gives the appearance that I’m keeping this blog (oh dear, I have a blog, how embarrasing) up-to-date. . . [...]

A terrific programmer and artist toxi has written up some thoughts about “Code (with a capital C)” and Processing. The post inspired a great deal of discussion on the Processing forum as well as a second and third post on toxi’s blog.
I was about to post some of my thoughts on the forum [...]

week 1 tutorial
Ok, so the first edition of the new revised nature of code tutorials is up and online. As I continue to update the lessons over the course of the semester, I’ll slowly take the old site down. Comments, critiques, welcome!

run babble
“Babble” is a quick experiment inspired by Gnoetry. Gnoetry creates poetry by placing words next to each other according to how they appear statistically in a source text. Babble does exactly the same thing, however, on a character by character level. Babble analyzes a source text and calculates the probability [...]

My first tutorial for my new course Programming from A to Z is up and online. I’m having an issue on the site where wordpress is adding extra slashes before quotes when I post code using the pre-formatted tags. . . still have a few things to clean-up, but it’s there now. . . [...]

Some would say it’s weird to love a web hosting company. But I guess I’m weird that way. Because I love dreamhost. I really do. And before today, I always thought it was unrequited . . . no longer, we will live happily ever after. . .

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I posted some photos on flickr of a reception for Swarm at the home of Adam Leipzig and Lori Zimmerman in Los Angeles. . . You can put anything on a giant 50 dlp monitor and it will look nice.
Originally uploaded by shiffman.