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Monthly Archives: June 2008
What a Programmer Should Study
Monday, June 16, 2008
To paraphrase a quote attributed to Avinash Meetoo’s unnamed professor in the comments section in this wiki article: A programmer should be studying that which prepares him for his last job; not just his next, or current one. – Grant Rettke
On Functional Programming in Education
Monday, June 16, 2008
Regarding my last post, you should definitely read all of the comments. It is pretty interesting to get everyone’s perspective on the topic (even if it is simply something to the effect of “Sounds like a great idea!”). Take, for example, Dan Friedman‘s comment: Since I have been teaching functional programming in my undergraduate programming [...]
Functional Programming in Education
Monday, June 16, 2008
On May 28-29, 2008 SIGPLan held a workshop on Programming Languages in the Curriculum at Harvard. to discuss the role of Functional Programming in Education. The results of their efforts are here. Please have a look, and, per Matthias’ comment, please consider posting your comments (under the “Programming Languages” section)!
OLPC XO: The Programmer’s Ebook Reader
Monday, June 16, 2008
The OLPC XO has turned out to be a perfect ebook reader for me for the following reasons: 5 hour battery life in black&white mode with xpdf and mzscheme or Firefox and SBCL open While reading, try out code in Common Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, Ruby, Perl… Take notes while reading Beautiful screen Light weight, tiny [...]
A presentation about Fluxus
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Dave posted his slides from a recent Fluxus presentation here.
C and a desert island
Sunday, June 8, 2008
If you were trapped on a desert island, clearly you would choose C as your only programming language!
About PLT Scheme v4.0
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Have a look at Matthew Flatt’s thoughts about the pending release of PLT Scheme 4.0. He sets a definitive (if not authoritative) tone for what PLT Scheme v4.0 will, and will not, be.
A Guided Tour of Emacs
Sunday, June 8, 2008
[Trey] recently came across the GNU page: A guided tour of Emacs. It is a gem of an introduction to Emacs. Unlike the help distributed with Emacs (tutorial, FAQ, *info* pages), this tour does a good job illustrating the wide variety of Emacs capabilities
A video tour of PLT Scheme 4.0
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Via the PLT Scheme blog, there is a video tour of DrScheme now available here with a higher resolution video available here.