Code/Word/Play

 This Saturday, we explore strategies from literature and creative writing that can add richness to the experience of writing or interacting with code in a micro-hackathon.

 - Come and explore the outlets for creative expression in coding, as in writing, over a hearty Brunch at Church Street Social.

 - Build anything that plays with words, phrases and syllables, to remix pieces of literature, or come up with something entirely new.

Too vague? No problem, we've got a bunch of prompts to stir up creative juices:

• Play with algorithmic poetry: For instance, build a random Haiku generator (a poem constituted by 17 syllables over three lines)
• Play with word transformation: For instance, swap out words in a poem or a given passage with others based on arbitrary rules (for e.g., with homonyms - words that sound like the word you're swapping), build a basic crossword solver, play with repeated translation into different languages to see whether the final output matches an initial input sentence.
• Think of this as an opportunity to play with code and words, building out tender little code-based beings that have no purpose whatsoever but to stimulate something unexpected when you interact with it.
• Play with communication: For instance, build a chat bot to convert any given sentence over a chat into yoda speak, build a chat bot that responds in rhyme.
• Play with memorable language: For instance, build a chrome new tab screen that generates random nuggets of Stoic wisdom from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
• Play with human language: Write an ode to code :)
• We're building out a comprehensive list. Write to us with a few of your own!

Register at: http://www.venturesity.com/challenge/id/372