Conversational
Programming
A hand-drawn skyline: the Illinois campus inked on the left gives way to an imagined future city, then to pencil sketches, then to a bare horizon line running off the page.

Activities

One page per class session, posted the day we do it. What's here is what we actually did, not a plan for what we might do, so it will always be a little behind and never wrong. If you teach and want to borrow any of it, please do.

Some of them are hard to picture from a description, because they happen on several screens at once. Those have a walkthrough: the whole activity recorded end to end, every screen side by side, a step at a time.

  1. Wednesday, September 9

    Fresh Eyes

    Your partner looks at your website the way a stranger would and says what they see; you change it while they watch. Then you swap, and then you find someone new.

    Watch it, step by step

  2. Friday, September 4

    Pair Prompting

    One of you prompts the agent; the other watches how, asks, and keeps notes. Then you swap.

    Watch it, step by step

  3. Wednesday, September 2

    Your Website

    Set up Codex, then start the site that will hold everything you make this semester.

    Watch it, step by step