Monthly Archives: January 2008

Learning by experimenting (with Scheme)

In his beautiful essay, The Art of Lisp & Writing, Richard Gabriel makes a strong case for the use of programming mediums instead of programming languages when either introducing programming to students or starting a new project. He says: “The … Continue reading

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Creativity in Programming

I’ve just started teaching a new module today to second year Computer Science students. It’s the Programming Languages module where students are supposed to be exposed to alternative paradigms and programming languages. Today I had a lab session with one … Continue reading

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The Story of Programming: great idea!

I came across a great blog entry “Books that should exist” by Daniel Ehrenberg, a well-known Factor hacker, today where he writes: I, like many of you reading this blog, have an unhealthy interest in programming languages. Mine may be … Continue reading

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