Fall Semester 2023, Wednesdays, 3pm-5:30pm in CIT room 219

Zoom link: https://brown.zoom.us/j/95032532723

Professors: Norm Meyrowitz & Andy van Dam

We look at hypertext systems that came before and after the World Wide Web as a basis for discussing what next generation hypertext systems could look like. We will discuss features such as linking, annotating, searching, filtering, and note-taking, and issues such as addressing and permanence of information, tracking of individuals, and social impact of computing.

Students will be doing writing assignments, reading, annotating, and writing technical papers, creating a hypermedia corpus, participating in in-class brainstorming sessions, discussing materials in a round-table format, and developing software prototypes with Typescript and the state-of-the-art MERN (MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js) stack.

Students will learn not only about hypertext, but will use that knowledge to develop full-stack applications using modern technologies and high-level software architectures as they prototype systems of the future.

The course will be capped at 40 students to facilitate participation and discussion.

If C@B shows our course as oversubscribed, fear not. Join the waitlist by requesting an override in C@B. You won't get the override approval immediately, but as slots open up, we will approve overrides. (Things change drastically during shopping period, so in past years, everyone on the waitlist eventually was able to take the course.)