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<div class="">No fitting all your concern but</div>
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<li class="">simple to use for novices</li><li class="">combining music with programming (Computational Music Thinking)</li><li class="">web-based</li></ul>
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<div class="">paper: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341079457_Computational_Music_Thinking_Patterns_Connecting_Music_Education_with_Computer_Science_Education_through_the_Design_of_Interactive_Notations" class="">
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341079457_Computational_Music_Thinking_Patterns_Connecting_Music_Education_with_Computer_Science_Education_through_the_Design_of_Interactive_Notations</a></div>
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<div class="">The paper includes examples and links to programs.</div>
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<div class="">best, Alex </div>
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<div class="">On Jul 6, 2020, at 2:11 PM, Ken Tilton <<a href="mailto:kentilton@gmail.com" class="">kentilton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">So I got to thinking about creating an approachable pathway to IT careers for anyone really, but in the spirit of today one focused on creating career opportunities for African Americans.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The idea would be a code camp developed around algorithmic generation of music. I know nothing about music theory, except that there is prolly enough there to introduce most if not all fundamental programming
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">For those campers that accidentally get hooked on programming itself, which is how many of us ended up in IT careers, away they go!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The idea is to:</div>
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<li class="">use music as the hook;</li><li class="">defer as long as possible the annoying things about programming (I am looking at you, node.js);</li><li class="">part of that ^^^ will be using a powerful language with the parentheses in the right place, prolly ClojureScript since that could run where JS runs;</li><li class="">keep programming as the focus, as tempting as the music will be. Sonic Pi comes with all sorts of built-in sound capabilities, but we want to
<i class="">develop</i> those in the code camp;</li><li class="">tailor the program to specific musical genres, to maximize the musical hook.</li></ul>
<div class="">I am dropping this here since I know many Common Lispers have a strong musical bent. My questions are:</div>
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<li class="">Could we use CL instead? I do think this almost has to be a web app, perhaps even mobile. Hmmm, we
<i class="">could</i> CL-ify CLJS with sufficent clever macrology.</li><li class="">What do you think? Can a solid programming fundamentals course be expressed in music theory? Hint: HTTP is not a programming fundamental.</li><li class="">If there is any interest, what would be a good place for an ongoing discussion? Google groups?</li></ul>
<div class="">Ideas, comments, suggestions all welcome.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Prof. Alexander Repenning</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">University of Colorado</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Boulder, CO 80309-430</div>
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