Creative programming does not have to be ‘an obsessive or one-to-one relationship between human and computer’ (Armitage 2018 p.35). I experimented with producing creative programming and explored how a more collaborative approach to programming impacted the process positively. Why does creative programming matter? Creative programming does not have to be ‘an obsessive or one-to-one relationship […]
Expanding on the previous week’s task where we created a MySQL database and created a website that presented the data, this week I created a user database. This allowed me to create a login system using PHP and MySQL to start to personalise the website with pages that only members could access. A key part of this was […]
Data is central to digital media; creative and efficient use of data can add value and utility to any artefact. I will also consider sources of useful data and how dynamic web applications could be used to create social capital by facilitating beneficial interactions between people. Ultimately while I discovered how to get, make the […]
WordPress presents both possibilities and limitations. Lets look at the various socio-technical implications of WordPress as an open-source web development platform that works within a network of digital platforms. WordPress provides the resources for content management holding a marketplace of prewritten code that can be plugged together with many different people contributing by writing plug-ins and themes. […]