code class

looking at classes for next semester and know i'm not going to get to take what i want to ('cause i've got the joy of quals) has made me decide i am going to take a computer science "programming" class. hopefully it'll help with thinking about code, cause me to talk out of my ass less and make it easier to teach myself python (or something similar). but i can't take it now, but i will next fall, see if i can just sit in, or take it seriously, we'll see. this is the class: CSCI-101L Fundamentals of Computer Programming or CSCI-201L Principles of Software Development or

on a related note i kinda wanna sit in on a class anne balsamo is teaching on "science technology and gender." in fact, i'd be a fool not to. this would leave me taking on seminar, sitting in on an undergrad class and anne's class while trying to take quals. ack, and cory doctrow is teaching a class called "PWNED: Is Everyone on this Campus a Copyright Criminal?" ... prolly not new stuff, but would be fun. grrrr.

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geography and code (quals)

turns out there's a bunch of geographers who write about code. atleast three and thats close enough to a bunch for me.

• martin dodge: ... has done a bunch of "mapping the internet" stuff and wrote an interesting piece on code and space w/ kitchin. there's an interesting interview with him at "infovis.net."
  
• nigel thrift: ... amongst a bazillion other things has written about code and the "automatic production of space"
• rob kitchin: ... wrote "toward geographies of cyberspace" in 98, lots of stuff on "mapping cyberspace," w/dodge. also "geographies of sci-fi." keen!
  
• shuan french: ... worked with thrift on code, into IT and practices of management, sounds interesting.
  

interestingly, all of these folk are in the UK or Ireland. atleast there's some base for me to work from in geography for thinking about code, this is good. the question of why the UK and Ireland endlessly fascinates me ... i keep thinking it has to have something to do with british cultural studies, but i just don't know enough about that "Birmingham School" thing to able to say why or how (or if i'm just making shit up). i'm sure there's some interesting reason and that its connected to why almost all folk doing youth and geography are also outta the UK (don't know about the and Ireland here). hmmmm.

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