A silent revolution has changed the way computer science is understood and taught. The modern curriculum no longer focuses on the constructs of a language and the state changes in the machine. Instead, programming is taught as a problem-solving process that starts from a thorough understanding of classes of data and objects. The TeachScheme! Project […]
Back when my co-worker and I were preparing some white-papers (the research was the hard part), we decided to present them in “conference paper layout” initially.
SIGPLAN provides some such templates for MS Word here.
Alternately, here are some local copies:
sigplanconf.dot
sigplanconf-varsize.dot
Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter is an essay about the lack of computer science in the educational curriculum today, and what can be done about it. They’ve come up with an interesting, and successful, approach.
[I want] to place computing where it belongs: in the hearts and minds of every single student.
Here here!
DEFUN 2008 invites functional programmers who know how to solve
problems with functional progamming to give talks and lead tutorials
at the The ICFP Developer Tracks.
We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful
libraries, and engineering approaches you’ve used that the world
should know about and apply to other projects. We want to know how to
be productive […]
Re: CUFP 2007 Videos in the ACM Digital Library, they are also now available on Google Video.
You can find the talks by searching on CUFP07 or on the speaker’s last name.
Here is the list of speakers and presentations.
(via CUFP)
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
Here is a good article about the role and value of “toy” programming tasks.
The videos recorded at CUFP 2007 have been posted in the
ACM Digital Library. You can find them either by searching for “CUFP”
at the top level DL page or by using this link.
Hopefully they are soon to be released to Google Video!
(via CUFP)
The goal of the 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming is to:
report experience with the programming languages known as Scheme, to discuss ideas for the future of Scheme, and to present research related to Scheme and functional programming.
It is co-located with ICFP 08 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Beware Pseudo-Arrays, why does this occur?
How is it that students internalize a conceptual difference between the notion of bindings between:
6count -> 10
and
counts[6count] -> 10
?