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Announcements
  • Welcome to Week 2 of Social Computing! 🎉
  • DUE Lab 2 is due 9/16 at 11:59pm.

Office Hours​

My office hours are on Tuesdays from 3-4:30pm and Thursdays from 4-5pm, and by appointment at Martin 312. Occasional updates to office hours will be reflected here.

To schedule meeting or to ask a question, please email me at sukrit+cs77@swarthmore.edu (the +cs77 will bump your email to the top of my inbox). If it's a general question that might be helpful for everyone, please ask on the class Discord.

To promote life-work balance, I do not check my email/Discord/Slack after 5pm or on weekends. Similarly, I don't set deadlines on weekends so you can take time off, too.

Week 1​

Tue 9/2🤖 Welcome + URLs and HTML/CSS (slides)
    Wed 9/3🔬 DIY Personal Website (slides)
    Thur 9/4🌎 The Promises and Perils of Social Technology (slides)

    Week 2​

    Tue 9/9🤖 Javascript: Intro, Events, DOM (slides)
    Wed 9/10🔬 Online Fame and Infamy
    Thur 9/11🌎 Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Identity

    Week 3​

    Tue 9/16🤖 JavaScript: Objects, JSON, Forms, Async/Await, APIs, REST
    Wed 9/17🔬 What's in a Social Media Platform?
    Thur 9/18🌎 Content Moderation, Conflict Resolutions, and Quarantines

    Week 4​

    Tue 9/23🤖 Web Servers: NodeJS and ExpressJS
  • DUE 9/23Lab 3: Social Media Platform UI
  • READJavascript TDG: Server-Side JavaScript with Node (16.1, 16.2, 16.7, 16.8)
    • Wed 9/24🔬 What's in a Social Media Platform? Pt. 2
    Thur 9/25🌎 Crowdsourcing and Peer Production

    Week 5​

    Tue 9/30🤖 Databases and SQL
  • DUE 9/30Lab 4: Social Media Platform Server
    • Wed 10/1🔬 The Internet is Forever... Until it's Not
    Thur 10/2🌎 AI vs. IA and AI in Social Settings

    Week 6​

    Tue 10/7🤖 Sessions, Users, Login/Logout
    Wed 10/8🔬 Everything in Moderation
    Thur 10/9🌎 Hope and Speculative Design

    Week 7 🎃 Fall Break! 🍂​

    Octobr 10-19th. No homework, no labs, no demos. Enjoy your break!

    Week 8​

    Tue 10/21🤖 Lab Work Session - Sukrit at CSCW
    Wed 10/22🔬 Ideation and Brainstorming
    Thur 10/23🌎 ReactJS (Damian) - Sukrit at CSCW

    Week 9​

    Tue 10/28🤖 VueJS
    Wed 10/29🔬 Low-Fidelity Prototyping
    Thur 10/30🌎 Designing for Norms and Culture

    Week 10​

    Tue 11/4🤖 VueJS continued
    Wed 11/5🔬 Front-End UI
    Thur 11/6🌎 Governance

    Week 11​

    Tue 11/11🌎 Collaboration
    Wed 11/12🔬 Front-End UI
    Thur 11/13🌎 Sustaining and Maintaining Social Computing Systems

    Week 12​

    Tue 11/18🌎 Emergence and Scale: Evaluating Social Computing Systems
    Wed 11/19🔬 Back-End Database and Server
      Thur 11/20🌎 A Day in the Life of a Tech Worker
      • READWatch any "Day in the Life of a (Software Engineer, Data Scientist, etc.)" video on YouTube

      Week 13​

      Tue 11/25🌎 Social Virtual Reality
      Wed 11/26🔬 Back-End Database and Server
      Thur 11/27Thanksgiving break - no class

      Week 14​

      Tue 12/2🌎 What Tech Calls Thinking
      Wed 12/3🔬 Deployment
      Thur 12/4🌎 Soft, Everyday Resistance

      Week 15: Last Week of Class 🥳​

      Tue 12/9🌎 The Future of Social Computing
      Wed 12/10🔬 Deployment | Last day of class
      Thur 12/11 No Class
      Thur 12/12 Final Presentations (9am-12pm)