January 7th: Introduction

Class Overview

• Welcome and Introduction
• Review of Schedule and Code of Conduct
• Zach Lieberman's Question Excercise: What questions brought you to the room? Technical? Philosophical? Practical? Impractical? Big Picture? Little Picture?

Before next class

• Create a personal Github Repository on the course Github Organization.

  1. Fill out the course survey here: course registration survey
  2. Wait for an invitation to the course github organization from me. Note- if you currently have a github account, you will recieve an invite to that account. If you do not, you will recieve an invite through the email you provided on the survey. You will then have to register with github in order to join the organization.
  3. Once you recieve an invite, create a new repository on the github organization. Use your first name and last initial(no spaces) as the repository name. Do not initialize a README, add a gitignore, or a license.
  4. Open the student_sample repository. This is a template I've created to help you setup your own repository. Download a zipped copy of the repository to your computer, unzip it and save it somewhere that is not your Downloads folder. You might also want to rename the directory.
  5. Open the README.md file and edit it with your personal information. You can use any code-oriented text editor to do this. I prefer Sublime.
  Do not use textEdit.
  6. Open the command-line application on your computer. Terminal on Mac and Linux, Command Prompt on Windows
  7. cd into the directory.
  8. Initialize a git repository with: "git init"
  9. Add all the current files in the directory: "git add --all"
  10. Make your first commit: "git commit -m ""
  11. Setup your remote to point to the repository you created with your name: "git commit -m "git remote add origin https://github.com/CSVAD/.git"
  12. Push your changes to the remote: "git push -u origin master"



• Reading and Reflection

  Hennessey, Beth A. and Amabile, Teresa M., Creativity (January 2010). Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 61, pp. 569-598, 2010. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1601146 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100416

  The Trouble with “Creativity” by John Baer from Sternberg, R., & Kaufman, J. (Eds.). (2018). The Nature of Human Creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108185936

  Ben Shneiderman. 2007. Creativity support tools: accelerating discovery and innovation. Commun. ACM 50, 12 (December 2007), 20–32.