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CMU has an entire degree for this (Bachelor of CS & Art), although it ends up being 150% of the work to learn both art and CS. Much more effective are intro pr
by beecafe 5y ago
CMU has an entire degree for this (Bachelor of CS & Art), although it ends up being 150% of the work to learn both art and CS. Much more effective are intro programming classes focusing on generative art as a way to motivate creative people to learn programming.
- daniel-cussen 5y ago> although it ends up being 150% of the work to learn both art and CS. I'd be fine with that. People forget, art is hard. An artist is the genius of his society, it requires devotion to produce that art, a masterpiece is the work of a master of his art.
- beecafe 5y agoI thought I would be too, but I ended up going to a Art with CS minor. I felt like I had to compromise actually making good artwork (vs tech demos/one dimensional projects) to sit in CS theory classes when I already had all the technical knowledge they were going to teach, and you can get the minor just from the technical classes.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoThat's a good compromise. Paul Graham did a lot of both art and CS. The book Hackers and Painters is on that subject. He even retired from both Yahoo and Y Combinator at a moment when they were doing amazing, leaving crazy money on the table, in order to do some painting. In addition, it took me a long time to track this detail down, but "ANSI Common Lisp" does not include any information about the cover art, what its name is, the artist credit, nothing. It also has no signature. Turns out the author painted it.