Originally posted here: What we will do is to read and complete the problems in HTDP. When we’ve got questions (or thoughts or ideas) about the content (any content, not necessarily limited to HTDP, anything CS/HTDP related is fair game), we should send them to the mailing list. I will respond to, and post, questions [...]
Originally posted here: Initially, the folks participating are primarily either co-workers or non-co-worker friends who have wide range of experience and interests. From my perspective, everyone is welcome. The more interested, motivated participants the better! I’ve been delighted by the number of folks that have showed up on the Internet either to participate or help. [...]
About three weeks ago I “made it official” and announced the Study-HTDP for any folks who may be interested. I figured that I would post both to the group itself, and mirror the interesting things here. It didn’t really work out that way. Focusing on the work and not much else, I’ve posted exclusively to [...]
For my BarCampMadison2 presentation this year, I prepared a DVD “gift bag” with a lot of material on Functional Programming (FP) and specific FP languages like Scheme and Haskell, and also included DrScheme binaries for Mac and Windows and source for UNIX. Yesterday I received an email from one of the attendees. He was copying [...]
Here is an article about a “position paper of sorts that Rich Hickey has posted on Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State”. (via LtU)
An article and discussion about DSLs and Perl linked here (via LtU).
Originally I figured that a lot of my thoughts would show up here, but they haven’t. Instead they get posted directly to the group. That said, here are some thoughts from the week: The beginning student language is interesting: no variable binding and function definitions are only one expression long It is great to be [...]
Essence is a generator for LR(k) and SLR(k) parsers in Scheme.
The OLPC XO shall Give One Get One Program shall return! Wonderful! I hope everyone takes the opportunity both to pick up and donate an XO here!