This is an archival version of Coding the Law's Fall 2021 course site.
Click the green flag to start. Game by Hiro-Protagonist (Colarusso). See original. This game was made in Scratch, an educational programming language. We introduce coding with Scratch in Level 4 if you want to try your hand at making something similar.

Coding the Law
Suffolk Law School: Fall 2021
by @Colarusso

A self-guided LegalTech Adventure for folks with or without prior coding experience.

  ~5.2 hours async work

Your Final Project
4+ Hours

Enrolled students should spend the majority of this and subsequent levels working on their final projects. See The Final Project Rubric. This level includes no programming challenges and no new reading.

This Level's Guest Speaker:

Rose Devlin, Lead UX/UI Designer @ Theory and Principle

Rose is the lead UX/UI designer at Theory and Principle. She has been a designer for 12 years, starting her career as a graphic designer in San Francisco and then moving on to user experience design in 2013. Rose has designed products ranging from large eCommerce sites, to health care products, to applications in the legal and justice space. She has worked at Theory and Principle for 3 years designing applications that make complex experiences more user friendly. She has a BFA in Communications Design from Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts and is a regular contributor to local User Experience Professional Association chapters.

Theory and Principle | Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn

Readings
~ 13 Minutes

You can get a sneak peak at Rose's design thinking here:

Self-Reflection and Logging Your Work
~20 min

As we do at the end of every level, we ask that you take a few minutes to reflect on how things are going. That being said, you've almost completed Level 12. Tell me how it's going by completing the form linked below.

Synchronous Meet Up, AKA our Class Time
≥1 hour 30 Minutes | November 15, 2021 @ 4pm Eastern

If you're an enrolled student, we're meeting via Zoom at this link. You should have received the password from me earlier, email subject, "Coding The Law, Week One Assignment". If you don't have the password, and you are a registered student, DM me on Teams, and I can give you the password. If you're not an enrolled student, I'm afraid you can't join us.

This synchronous time will be split between our guest speaker and final project rounds. That is, we'll go around the class and check in with everyone about their progress on final projects. We'll also work to help folks strategize about next steps and overcoming any blockers.

Time estimates are just that—estimates. The assumptions used to calculate reading time are as follows: 48 pages is assumed to take roughly an hour to read. When working with non paginated texts, it is assumed that a page is roughly equal to 250 words. Videos assume both 3X and 1X viewing. Estimates for coding are based on past experience. Each level should include about 6 hours and 40 min of work.