Programming & Processing

How Will We Work in This Course?

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss the assigned readings and answer any questions about the Introduction to Course Tools, slides available here
• Start Introduction to the Command Line & Prompt Engineering and Introduction to Versioning & Git(if not completed in-class, these will become homework).

Assigned Materials

• Vincent, Nick, and Hanlin Li. “GitHub Copilot and the Exploitation of ‘Data Labor’: A Wake-Up Call for the Tech Industry.” PSA Group (blog), July 8, 2021. https://www.psagroup.org/blogposts/101.
• Buschek, Christo, and Jer Thorp. “Models All The Way Down.” Knowing Machines. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-way.
• Introduction to Course Tools

Additional Materials

• Chiang, Ted. “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web.” The New Yorker, February 9, 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web.
• Schaul, Kevin, Szu Yu Chen, and Nitasha Tiku. “Inside the Secret List of Websites That Make AI like ChatGPT Sound Smart.” Washington Post, April 19, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/.