% Author: Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com % Date: January 2011 and April 2011 - Updated 2012-08-30 16:43 EDT % Title: Ian!s Computer Science Rap Videos - [Teaching Home Page] - [Course Home Page] - [Personal Home Page] - [Plain Text] Computer Science Rap #1 - “Why are you in Computer Science?” ============================================================= - Link to this file: [Winter 2011] ![][1]  In January 2011, I improvised a rap for my second-term CST8281 computer class: > “Only do, what only you can do.” - E.W.Dijkstra With this quote firmly in mind, I solicited five words about “why are you in Computer Science?” from my classroom, wrote them on the board (“job, knowledge, money, interesting, fun”), played a CCC beat track from NineInchNails, put on a red hoodie, and performed a freestyle, completely improvised rap including all of the words they gave me. This might be a first for Computer Studies. It’s certainly a first for me. The music was fetched January 2011 via [Creative Commons] - CCC Music: [MP3: 03 Ghosts I] by NineInchNails. - Copyright: [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License] Photo and Video links --------------------- ![][2]  - Video by Iman Kolaei. - Length: 1:05 The five video links below are all the same video, uploaded in different formats: - [MP4: MPEG v4 version 1] - [MP4: MPEG v4 version 2] - [FLV: Flash] - [MKV: Theora/Matroska Video] - [WebM] The above p twohotos are two screen captures from the video: [ian_rap1a.jpg][1] [ian_rap1b.jpg][2] Rap Text -------- The rap was completely improvised; there was no script or pre-planning other than finding the background music. The text below is transcribed (roughly) from the video. The five words the students gave me before the rap were **job**, **knowledge**, **money**, **interesting**, and **fun** and these five words are highlighted in ALL-CAPITALS below: okay, you said: you want your JOB to be INTERESTING you want to be, like, impressed with your boss your employer your destroyer destroyer of your free time you want KNOWLEDGE you want in your brain you want FUN you want to disdain the same kind of stuff as what you read online everyday I tell you it's not about the JOB it's not about the knob on your head it's about what you want to learn what you want to achieve what you want your life to be it's not just INTERESTING it's not about the MONEY the MONEY is, like, funny MONEY is funny it doesn't make you happy I want to say you want to have FUN you wish you had gone it's with painting the sun that's what it is for you. Computer Science Rap #2 - “Course Summary Before The Exam” =========================================================== ![][3]  To close the course on April 19, I did another improvised rap. I again solicited some words for the Rap Subject. The students chose: **ASCII**, **EBCDIC**, **UNICODE**, **form vs. content**, and **LipDub**. I used the same CCC beat track from NineInchNails, but I had to use my red windbreaker instead of an official red hoodie. Sorry. Photo and Video links --------------------- ![][4]  - Video by Iman Kolaei. - Length: 2:05 The five video links below are all the same video, uploaded in different formats: - [MP4: MPEG v4 version 1][5] - [MP4: MPEG v4 version 2][6] - [FLV: Flash][7] - [MKV: Theora/Matroska Video][8] - [WebM][9] The above two photos are two screen captures from the video: [ian_rap2a.jpg][3] [ian_rap2b.jpg][4] Rap Text -------- The rap was completely improvised; there was no script or pre-planning other than finding the background music and bringing the windbreaker. The text below is transcribed (roughly) from the video. The five words the students gave me before the rap were **ASCII**, **EBCDIC**, **UNICODE**, **form vs. content**, and **LipDub** and these five words are highlighted in ALL-CAPITALS below: RAP TEXT TO BE ADDED LATER. MAYBE. (TEXT IS NOT FULLY PG-13) -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ [Plain Text] - plain text version of this page in [Pandoc Markdown] format [Teaching Home Page]: / [Course Home Page]: .. [Personal Home Page]: http://idallen.com/ [Plain Text]: 000_Rap.txt [Winter 2011]: /cst8281/11w/notes/000_Rap.html [1]: ian_rap1a.jpg "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [Creative Commons]: http://creativecommons.org/culture [MP3: 03 Ghosts I]: 03_Ghosts_I.mp3 [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License]: 000_Licensing.txt [2]: ian_rap1b.jpg "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [MP4: MPEG v4 version 1]: rap_video01_by_iman_kolaei.mp4 "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [MP4: MPEG v4 version 2]: rap_video01_by_iman_kolaei1.mp4 "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [FLV: Flash]: rap_video01_by_iman_kolaei.flv "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [MKV: Theora/Matroska Video]: rap_video01_by_iman_kolaei.mkv "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [WebM]: rap_video01_by_iman_kolaei.webm "Ian!s First Classroom Rap" [3]: ian_rap2a.jpg "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [4]: ian_rap2b.jpg "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [5]: rap_video02_by_iman_kolaei.mp4 "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [6]: rap_video02_by_iman_kolaei1.mp4 "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [7]: rap_video02_by_iman_kolaei.flv "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [8]: rap_video02_by_iman_kolaei.mkv "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [9]: rap_video02_by_iman_kolaei.webm "Ian!s Second Classroom Rap" [Pandoc Markdown]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/