Re: [Edu-sig] CS + theater

2012-04-05 Thread kirby urner
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Philip Guo wrote: > Agreed that finding more synergies (pardon my business-speak) between > computing and the liberal arts can be wonderful.  Reminds me a bit of > Computing for Poets: > > http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/131/ > Yes. Theater in particular b

Re: [Edu-sig] CS + theater

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Graham
Computer Game Design seems to encompass this intersection and is a very interesting space, since there are connections to theater, but also to all sorts of other arts. Frederick P. Brooks has expressed it about as well as anyone: "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from

Re: [Edu-sig] CS + theater

2012-04-05 Thread Philip Guo
Agreed that finding more synergies (pardon my business-speak) between computing and the liberal arts can be wonderful. Reminds me a bit of Computing for Poets: http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/131/ On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, kirby urner wrote: > As I was telling my younger daughter

[Edu-sig] CS + theater

2012-04-05 Thread kirby urner
As I was telling my younger daughter during the ride to school today (she's a senior in high school, though already 20% professor and 22% your boss), a huge missed opportunity (so far) is the hybrid of theater and computer science. My older step daughter majored - minored in something like that, b