Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-09 Thread Arlo Barnes
I will be meeting with my uncle in a little less than a month, perhaps I could give him your email and he could tell you about it? -Arlo James Barnes On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ron Newman ron.new...@gmail.com wrote: Arlo, I'd be more interested in hearing about this. In music theory,

[FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-07 Thread Owen Densmore
Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the structure of the class. That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation of programmers got into programming via games. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 Education, is you getting

Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-07 Thread Joshua Thorp
Which was the second generation of programmers? On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the structure of the class. That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation of programmers got into

Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-07 Thread Owen Densmore
Mainly folks who did not start out programming for the sake of programming, but were led to it indirectly. Possibly better: their first use of computers was not programming. I.e. they did not have to use programming languages in the course work or job, but were self-motivated via, for example,

Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-07 Thread Arlo Barnes
My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning Python to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do not really understand the music theory, but that is what he told me), and he seems to really like it. -Arlo James Barnes On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM,

Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)

2012-11-07 Thread Ron Newman
Arlo, I'd be more interested in hearing about this. In music theory, you can assign harmonies to a given melody by matching the melody note to various degrees of a chord: root, third, 5th, and if you're more creative, 6th, 9th, etc. The trick is to at the same time honor chord-to-chord