Event

Generative Twitter Bots

This three hour workshop will cover how to build a Twitter bot in JavaScript using node.js. The rita.js library will be used for demonstrating classic generative text algorithms like markov chains and context-free grammars. In addition, well look at how you can load source text files and communicate with APIs (like Wordnik). The Twit node module will be used for communicating with the Twitter API itself.

Participants should feel comfortable working with intro level Javascript and a text editor (such as Sublime Text). However, an extensive background in programming is not necessary. The workshop will not assume any knowledge about Node or APIs. If you are an experienced Node or JavaScript programmer this workshop might be too basic for you.

Participants will need to bring their own laptops.

If you have no prior experience with programming and Processing/p5, please consider signing up for Coding from 0 to 1 on March 12.

(@glitchbuchannon: An automated glitch-art making TwitterBot, created by @IamCraigPickard.)

Teacher: Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman works as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Originally from Baltimore, Daniel received a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and a Master's Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for Processing, the open source programming language and environment created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code (self-published via Kickstarter), an open source book about simulating natural phenomenon in Processing.