The idea that women and BIPOC can't code started in the 80s with the rise of 'hacker culture' and the idea that coding is 'cool.' Hacking became a club of sorts and participants made themselves feel better by excluding people who didn't look like them.

This is obviously completely inappropriate and exceptionally damaging to the tech industry and more importantly damaging to the journalism business. Any attitude or behavior like this will not be tolerated. Any whiff of implicit biases, micro-aggressions or outright discriminatory behavior in class will be called out, discussed and noted.

#### Additional Policies/ Classroom norms

Collaboration and helping out classmates if you understand something that they are struggling with is very important to success in this class. I also grade on effort. Not everyone will find this course material easy, but if you try your hardest (and I can tell), your grade will reflect that.

Each class builds on the previous one, so it is crucial that you do not miss a class or fall behind. If you have to miss a class, let me know in advance so we can discuss how to keep you up to speed. If you are struggling with some concepts or code, let me know and I will meet with you separately to go over it.

This can be complicated material, especially if you are not paying attention. Do not text, chat with your friends on Facebook, or play on your computer during the instruction.

#### Required Readings, hardware/software, laptops and supplementary materials

While there is no required text in this course, there are a number of websites and tutorials you will be asked to read and work your way through, including:

###### Assignments and reference materials can be found at http://peggybustamante.com/ascjcoding/

▪ HTML tutorial: http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp ▪ CSS tutorial: http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp ▪ JavaScript tutorial: http://w3schools.com/js/default.asp ▪ JQuery tutorial: http://w3schools.com/jquery/default.asp

For reference textbooks, these are recommended: 'HTML &CSS: Design and build websites' by Jon Duckett (John Wiley &Sons, Inc., 2011) 'JavaScript &JQuery: Interactive front - end web development' by Jon Duckett (John Wiley &Sons, Inc., 2014) These are also good reference and learning sites: LinkedIn Learning (https://itservices.usc.edu/linkedin-learning/) W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/) Codecademy (http://www.codecademy.com)

#### News Consumption and Knowledge of Current Events

As journalists, you should keep up with what is happening on campus, in the Los Angeles area, in the United States and around the world. USC provides subscriptions for students, staff and faculty to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, as well as the Wall Street Journal.

Through the USC library, you have access to many regional news outlets and a variety of publications that cover specific communities. You should be familiar with publications covering the many communities of Los Angeles such as The Los Angeles Sentinel, The Los Angeles Blade, The Los Angeles Wave, La Opinión, L.A. Taco, The Eastsider, The Armenian Weekly, High Country News, the Asian Journal and others. You should keep up with the Daily Trojan and uscannenbergmedia.com, including USC student-led verticals Dímelo and Black., listen to NPR and news radio, watch local and national television news, read news email newsletters and push alerts and follow news organizations social networks, including Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. You're encouraged to sign up for Nieman