Yale University School of Art: Art742b

ART 742B: NETWORKS & TRANSACTIONS: SPRING 2012

Syllabus

SEE ALSO: SPRING 2011 SPRING 2010 SPRING 2009 SPRING 2008 SPRING 2007 ART 752A

SCHEDULE AND SIGNUP FEBRUARY 6

1:30–2:30 Lab
2:30–3:00 Reading discussion

Individual meetings:

3:15 Gina
3:30 Rob
3:45 Chris
4:00 Martha
4:15 Ghazaal
4:30 Tiff
4:45 Este
5:00 ming
5:15 Alex
5:30 Min Hee
5:45 Marina
6:00 __Jang
6:15 Grace
6:30 __Suckzoo
6:45 __Qiuye Liu
7:00 Matthew
7:15 __Eric
7:30 __Cecilie
7:45 Stefan

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READINGS

Week 1: Josef Albers

vs. Wim Cuyvers

Week 2: Thomas Pynchon

vs. Paul Elliman

Week 3: The weather according to Street View

Week 4: Chaos

PROJECTS

JUNCTION CRIT JANUARY 30

3:25–5:25

Cecilie: Art narratives at the YUAG
Eric: Indecision lobby
Este: Buy write
Gina: Weather Door
Ghazaal: YSOA lab work in progress on the YUAG
Marina: Missed connections radio
Martha: Lonely book shopping receipts
Min Hee: Rare book swimming
Stefan: Grocery price comparison stock ticker
Tiff: News nails

5:45–7:45

Alex: BlueTV
Christopher: Police report dog adoption
Grace: Trailer crosswords
Janghyun: Architectural practice closed, theory open
Matthew: Trade deficit receipts
Ming: Paper Skype tickers
Qiuye: Broccoli certificate
Rob: AdverPrinting and ShelterCard
Suckzoo: You must be going

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WEATHER

Yahoo Weather docs

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LABS

January 30: Basic HTML and PHP


<!-- For more on HTML, try http://www.w3schools.com -->

<html>

    <head>
    
        <title>
            My first HTML page
        </title>
    
    </head>
    
    <body>
    
        <?php
        
            $my_input = $_REQUEST['foo'];
        
            $my_sum = 1 + $my_input;
            
            $my_product = 2 * $my_sum;
            
            echo($my_product);            
        
        ?>    
    
        <p>
            My <em>first</em> <a href="suckzoo.html">paragraph</a>
        </p>
        
        <p>
            My second <a href="http://art.yale.edu">paragraph</a>
        </p>
        
        <img src="images/sun.jpg" />
        
        <p>
            More<br />text
        </p>
        
        <h1>
            A big header
        </h1>
        
        <ul>
            <li>
                Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 Item 1 
            </li>
            <li>
                Item 2
            </li>
            <li>
                Item 3
            </li>
        </ul>
        
        <img src="http://art.yale.edu/image_columns/0000/4088/kippenberger_poster_test_486.gif?1327950077" />
        
    </body>

</html>

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February 6: Control structures


<html>

    <head>
        <title>
            Control Structures
        </title>
    </head>

    <body background="<?php echo($bgcolor) ?>">
    
        Hello world
        
        <?php


        
            // =========================================
            // ====== GET REQUEST PARAMETERS ===========
            // =========================================

            // Get variables from ?mars=5&venus=8
            $m = $_REQUEST['mars']; // Get the mars parameter
            $v = $_REQUEST['venus']; // Get the venus parameter
            
            echo("<br />Mars is $m and Venus is $v<br />");


            
            // =========================================
            // ====== IF/ELSE CONTROL STRUCTURES =======
            // =========================================

            // If $m is greater than $v, then Mars wins
            if ($m > $v) {
                // Execution only moves into this block
                // if $m > $v
                echo("Mars wins!<br />");
                echo("Yahoo Mars!<br />");
                
                // This condition will never even
                // be evaluated unless the enclosing
                // condition was true, because execution
                // would have never got here in the
                // first place.                
                if ($m > $v + 5) {
                    echo("<i>By a lot!</i><br />");
                }
                
            }
            // Otherwise Mars does not win
            else {
                // Execution only comes in here
                // if $m is NOT > $v
                echo("Mars did not win.<br />");
            }
            
            // This happens regardless of the if/else
            echo("GAME OVER<br />");
            

            // =========================================
            // ============ LOOPS ======================
            // =========================================

            // Set a new variable, $i, to 1.
            $i = 1;
            
            // If $i <= 1000, do the code in this block
            // So this loop will happen 1000 times.
            while ($i <= 1000) {
            
                echo("$v ");
                
                // This loop will happen $v times
                // so we see 5 stars if Venus's score is 5,
                // 10 if Venus's score is 10
                $j = 1;
                while ($j <= $v) {
                    echo('<span style="color: red;">*</span> ');
                    $j = $j + 1;
                }
                
                $i = $i + 1; // Increase $i by 1
                // You could also say: $i += 1;
                // You could also say: $i++;
                            
            } // See if we should do it again.

            
            // "for" loop is a shorthand for "while"
            // Counter's initial value; condition; increase.
            for ($x = 1; $x <= 50; $x = $x + 1) {
            
                echo("$x &#9985;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ");
            
            }
        
        ?>
    
    </body>
    
</html>

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February 13: The weather


<?php

$zip = $_REQUEST["zip"];

$raw_xml = file_get_contents("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=$zip");

// Cheat a little
// This is because PHP's XML parser doesn't deal very easily
// with XML syntax such as "yweather:units". So just change all those to e.g. "units".
$raw_xml = str_replace("yweather:", "", $raw_xml);
$raw_xml = str_replace("geo:", "", $raw_xml);

// PARSE THE XML

// Get the root node
$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($raw_xml);

// Get the channel node within that
$channel = $xml->channel;

// Get the location node within that
$location = $channel->location;

// Get the city attribute of the location node
$city = $location['city'];
$region = $location['region'];

// Get the wind node and its attributes
$wind = $channel->wind;
$chill = $wind['chill'];
$direction = $wind['direction'];
$speed = $wind['speed'];

// Get the atmosphere node and its attributes
$atmosphere = $channel->atmosphere;
$humidity = $atmosphere['humidity'];
$visibility = $atmosphere['visibility'];
$pressure = $atmosphere['pressure'];
$rising = $atmosphere['rising'];

// Get the item node within the channel node
$item = $channel->item;

// Get the condition node within the item; and its attributes
$condition = $item->condition;
$condition_text = $condition['text'];
$condition_code = $condition['code'];
$temp = $condition['temp'];

// FUNCTION DEFINITIONS

function say_it_many_times($what, $how_many) {
    for ($i = 0; $i < $how_many; $i += 1) {
        echo($what);
        echo(" ");
    }
}

// DO SOMETHING WITH THE DATA WE HAVE NOW

echo($city);
echo("<br />");

say_it_many_times($condition_text, $speed);
            
?>

<img src="icon_<?= $condition_code ?>.png" />

<!-- Visibility: <?= $visibility ?> -->
<!-- Temperature: <?= $temp ?> -->
<!-- Condition code: <?= $condition_code ?> -->

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