This is an archival version of Coding the Law's Fall 2022 course site. The current version can be found here.
Click the green flag to start. Game by simiko. 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 2022
by @Colarusso

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

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 only light reading/viewing.

This Level's Guest Speaker:

Quinten Steenhuis, Clinical Fellow

Quinten Steenhuis is a clinical fellow in the Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. Quinten has practiced housing and eviction defense law since 2008, and has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. He speaks at area law schools and blogs frequently on the topic of legal technology. He works on projects addressing social justice and access to justice with technology focusing on the topic of housing and evictions. Quinten is an active member of his local community, serving as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge's Recycling Advisory Committee, serving on the Access to Justice Commission's working group on housing through the Justice for All initiative, founding a neighborhood political action group, and serving as the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.

Personal Website | Twitter | GitHub | LinkedIn

Readings

FWIW, you've seen Quinten Steenhuis's work before, back in Level 2's readings.

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 11. Tell me how it's going by completing the form linked below.

Synchronous Meet Up, AKA our Class Time
~1.8 hours | November 14, 2022 @ 4pm Eastern

If you're an enrolled student, we're meeting via Zoom at this link. 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 2X and 1X viewing. Estimates for coding are based on past experience. Each level should include about 6 hours and 40 min of work.