On May 28-29, 2008 SIGPLan held a workshop on Programming Languages in the Curriculum at Harvard.
to discuss the role of Functional Programming in Education. The results of their efforts are here.
Please have a look, and, per Matthias’ comment, please consider posting your comments (under the “Programming Languages” section)!
The OLPC XO has turned out to be a perfect ebook reader for me for the following reasons:
If you were trapped on a desert island, clearly you would choose C as your only programming language!
Have a look at Matthew Flatt’s thoughts about the pending release of PLT Scheme 4.0. He sets a definitive (if not authoritative) tone for what PLT Scheme v4.0 will, and will not, be.
[Trey] recently came across the GNU page: A guided tour of Emacs. It is a gem of an introduction to Emacs. Unlike the help distributed with Emacs (tutorial, FAQ, *info* pages), this tour does a good job illustrating the wide variety of Emacs capabilities
Via the PLT Scheme blog, there is a video tour of DrScheme now available here with a higher resolution video available here.
In this comp.lang.lisp post Ron Garret explains how he found and is in the process of exploring a copy of P-Lisp (PLisp) for the Apple IIe.
Addendum 06/24/08:
Ron explains how he created and released a disk image here.
This presentation at the Vancouver Lisp Users Group sounds like a lot of fun.
The truth is that I haven’t read the Emacs documentation yet. I will read it, it is on the list. Until then, I’ve relied on other kinds folks to provide answers for my questions. Tommy was kind enough to provide an answer for this one.
Evaluate the following in the scratch buffer:
(insert (w32-select-font))
For more information on Fonts in Emacs on Windows, go here.
(via Tommy)
