currently on cybre.space @maunzikation@computerfairi.es

@maunzikation @b_cavello you might also be interested in this: https://upsided.github.io/DescribedInstances.html

Anyone have recommendations for interactive intro to coding courses? Maybe videos or actual interactive experiences? I've been trying to read books on Javascript but my ADHD prevents me from focusing long enough to maintain the information.

As an aside, is Codeacademy actually any good? I'm getting mixed signals on it.

@Jules Here's a fun fact: Weavers sorta had computers before computers existed. The jaquard loom used punch cards to save complicated brocade or damask patterns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Jacquard_looms
They do belong in the family tree of inventions that led to modern computers. :D

>> One does not need to be experienced in computer science to use a ready-made computer program. There are already many on the market and more being advertised all the time in weavers' periodicals. ...
What does one do, however, when there seems to be no ready-made program available to use with a particular brand of computer? ... A third answer which could lead to tailor-made usefulness and greatest independence in the long run is, "Make your own program to fit your own interests and equipment."

"Adventures of a computer convert
(computer programming by a novice)

How do you feel about computers applied to weaving? If you have the opportunity to try one, you may be pleasantly surprised! Not so very long ago, I associated computers mainly with large businesses or for use in industrial and scientific processes. Suddenly, it seems, computers are in evidence everywhere from banks and grocery stores to private homes - including those of weavers!"

it's always humorous when people imply that without money or capital or jobs, humans would become idle and do nothing and waste away.

let me be real here -- i LOVE working. i love doing shit. i love labor so much. but i fucking HATE when i don't get to have control over my labor, when i have to labor for the sake of preventing my home being taken from me, or my power turned off, or starving.

do you know how much MORE work i would do if it was working out of my own desire instead of capital?

The author ends with :

"Well, my apple word processor tells me that this installment now contains 16,016 ASCII-character-bytes, which is about all that Clotilde has alloted me for this chapter. Join me next time for a chat about computer languages and programming."

I will now go an read all the nice computer stuff in the weavers journals that were published the year I was born ^^ It's a whole series!

Look what I just found. From an introduction to computers for weavers in a 1983 weaving journal https://computerfairi.es/media/_c7DMF30QPRXghFTZcs

The journal is online here: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/periodicals/wj_30.pdf

#weaving