By matt, on May 28th, 2004%
It’s always fun when someone you know starts a new weblog. Stuart Kent, formerly at the University of Kent (no relation), now at Microsoft, has started a weblog regarding his work on tools infrastructure.
Reading Microsoft weblogs regarding software design and development practices is a very educational experience. I must admit, I don’t read many of . . . → Read More: A new weblog
By matt, on May 27th, 2004%
A Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) has taken up roost outside the window of my father’s office for the last two days.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an insect that large/colorful “in the wild.” Not that my home town is all that wild, mind you… but . . . → Read More: Hyalophora cecropia
By matt, on May 21st, 2004%
Christian and I are working on an interpreter (written in C) for the Transputer instruction set. We are currently wrestling with porting the run-time to the LEGO Mindstorm. More precisely, we have cross-compiled our interpreter and run it successfully on the LEGO—no question about that—but what we have no way of doing is debugging on the . . . → Read More: 16-bit emulated CPU?
By matt, on May 18th, 2004%
It’s 11 PM, I’m going to be up most of the night, and I haven’t had dinner yet.
I wrote a Scheme program to place the order for our office.
(define order
`((veg-rolls 160)
(veg-rolls 160)
(spring-pancake-roll 140)
(crabmeat-sweet-corn-soup 180)
(special-fried-rice 380)
. . . → Read More: Scheme takeaway
By matt, on May 16th, 2004%
Perhaps some of the educators/education support types out there will have some insights into this. And, generally speaking, may be interested in the evolution of a summer project I’m now working on.
This summer, I’ll be working on a project to develop Java programming tutorials and supplementary content to support the next run of the course . . . → Read More: WebCT: scriptable?
By matt, on May 15th, 2004%
All of CS-ED.org no longer works under this pricing scheme. I have
one student,
Cool Stuff in Computer Science,
the main CS-ED.org page,
my weblog, and
course weblogs for a question/answer system I’ve developed
where there are multiple authors involved in some of these cases. I’m already into the $120 price bracket, with little room to grow and/or expand.
My options seem . . . → Read More: MovableType Pricing
By matt, on May 11th, 2004%
I have a lot of things to say about this one piece of code. It illustrates so many wonderful things, I can’t even begin to tell you all about them. Part of the reason I can’t go into it is because I’m actually in the middle of teaching a class (we’re working in teams on some . . . → Read More: Useless Java
By matt, on May 11th, 2004%
I’ll be up in London tomorrow and Thursday for some meetings, the Scheme UK users group meeting, and a day kicking it with a friend.
The question is: if I were to visit a museum on Thursday, which museum should I go to? I haven’t seen the Brancusi yet, which is supposed to be a good . . . → Read More: London for two days
By matt, on May 11th, 2004%
Documentation (in HTML and PDF), as well as the PLT file.
DrScheme users should be able to select File -> Install PLT file…, paste the url for the URL for the PLT bundle in, and things should ” just work.”
Update, 20040511 (Today) 5:12 PM
I feel a bit guilty releasing this software today; my only reason is . . . → Read More: XML-RPC for PLT Scheme, version 2.
By matt, on May 9th, 2004%
I have, more than once, faced criticism from peers in Computer Science that my research might have a better home… well, elsewhere. To be fair, the sciences have long wrestled with the question of whether the study of pedagogical issues within the domain is a valid avenue of research and reflection, or whether this kind of . . . → Read More: Who should be the judge?
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