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Programmer Hero
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
HtDP Languages and Math
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A comment by Matthais on the nature of the first three HtDP languages:
HtDP’s first three teaching languages are basically mathematics, ignoring the parentheses. We use
— arithmetic, for many different forms of data
— algebra, for (potentially conditional) function definitions
— pre-calculus, for induction and [...]
The Dylan programming language
Monday, October 13, 2008
When reading about Scheme or Smalltalk, the Dylan programming language is often mentioned.
Here is one person who likes it that has provided some notes on how to translate Scheme to Dylan. Here is his take on it:
Dylan is a completely object-oriented language, with multiple inheritance, generic functions, a powerful module system, a very expressive exception-handling [...]
A Visual Interpreter for Students Learning Scheme
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Students who know procedural and object-oriented languages frequently have difficulty learning the functional paradigm. The purpose of this work is to facilitate this transition by designing and implementing a set of visual tools that help students understand how Scheme, a functional language, programs work. To achieve our goals we worked on the implementation of a [...]
HOP Web Framework
Friday, October 3, 2008
HOP is a new Software Development Kit for the Web 2.0. It relies a new higher-order language for programming interactive web applications such as multimedia applications (web galleries, music players, …), office applications (web agendas, mail clients, …), ubiquitous domotics, etc. HOP can be viewed as a replacement for traditional graphical toolkits. HOP is implemented [...]
JVM Language Summit
Friday, October 3, 2008
Here is a writeup on the 2008 JVM Language Summit.
(via LtU)
When your debugger is just a library
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Q. Can you’re debugger just be a library?
A. Seemingly, yes.
Remove .svn files recursively
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Today I needed to convert a Subversion working copy (aka a checkout) into an export. Recursively blowing away all of the .svn directories in DOS (Windows XP) didn’t seem to be straightforward so I ended up using UNIX find in cygwin. Here is the command:
find . -type d -name ‘.svn’ -exec rm -rf {} \;
The [...]
The essence of form abstraction
Friday, September 19, 2008
Formlets:
Abstraction is the cornerstone of high-level programming; HTML forms are the principal medium of web interaction. However, most web programming environments do not support abstraction of form com- ponents, leading to a lack of compositionality. Using a semantics based on idioms, we show how to support compositional form construction and give a convenient syntax. [...]
A Prodigious Error Message
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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 [...]