Today is the first day of my summer courses. I’ll be taking Distributed Computing, Programming Language Concepts, Information Security Administration, Astronomy and the corresponding Astronomy lab and cramming all that into 8 weeks. Hooray. The Distributed Computing and PLC courses are online which helps ease my scheduling and transportation concerns somewhat…though by the end of [...]
Well, it seems a lot has happened since last time. An additional lisp library for concurrency called Calispel has been released and is up on Cliki. Unfortunately, it depends on cl-jpl-utils which in turn depends on cl-rsm-queue, neither of which are on Cliki. Such is life. There are good things though, a release candidate for [...]
It’s taken far too long to post this up and the last four problems remain unfinished. That said, I want to get more of the solutions I’ve worked written up and I shouldn’t have waited this long in the first place. With any luck Section 2.2 will follow within a week. I’m around half done [...]
So, I’ve been trying to do this self-study thing for 30 weeks. I probably should’ve stepped back to evaluate my progress before now but I’ve allowed myself to be distracted with other things. You know, moving out, working my first full-time job, learning how to cook, clean and take care myself. That’s no excuse though. [...]
Things have been really crazy lately. I’ve been trying to do so much and it really is hard. The real world finds ways to eat most of the time you have. It makes you small. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to find time to do anything other than maintain a few precious [...]
In the style of my former post on a Math Undergraduate Education, this post proposes a list of texts suitable for a rigorous and well-rounded foundation in Undergraduate Computer Science. A future post will cover the philosophical details and practical implementation of such an approach. This list skews towards theory rather than practicality (or Computer [...]
In the next few days, I’m hoping to write an article about education that serves as a follow up to Towards a new HR and Secondhand Standards. It will explain a bit more about the feasibility and philosophy behind this post. All this post is meant to do is propose a list of texts that [...]
As promised, here’s Section 03 with 04 soon to follow. Sections 03 and 04 are pretty unremarkable and the questions and answers are pretty self-explanatory. Again, you can check all the latest code in my repo by going to manifest, then books, htdp, and navigating to the various source files.
So, I’ve finally gotten around to cleaning up SICP Section 1.3. It’s not quite done but it’s damn close. For now, I want to start posting some of the HTDP code I’ve been writing to get back in the hacking habit over the past few days. I also have some of Concrete Abstractions done and [...]