Course Materials
Texts
All texts will be provided via links on this site's schedule. Some will link to PDFs that I upload to Google Drive. Other texts will be outbound links to the Web.
Tools
If your laptop is a little bit older, I suggest not adding all of these softwares until the time is necessary. I will review what is needed, when the time comes. However, please set your Google Drive folder.- Laptop computer.
- VT-affiliated Google Drive that you will use for organizing and sharing work files. The architecture of your class folder must use the following organization, where the forward-slash '/' represents a folder:
/engl3844s18-lastname-firstname /data sheets-lastname-firstname /dataviz viz-lastname-firstname.svg /explained-video ev-lastname-firstname.mp4 - Image / Visual Production: Inkscape & GIMP
- Video editing: Windows Movie Maker (Windows, built into Windows XP SP2 or greater, Vista or Windows 7: Microsoft Update: Live Essentials) & iMovie (Mac, built into OS 10.x).
- For any audio editing work for your videos: Audacity
- Coding Tools:
- Code Editor: Atom (Mac/Win), TextWrangler (Mac), Notepad++ (Win)
- Hosting and Versioning Your Website: Github account & desktop application.
- Online Code Editor for Practice Lessons + Prototyping: Codepen.io account. Find and follow me as lndgrn. We will be using the following collection that I've curated on Codepen: 3844-examples