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"more Americans have been killed by Scalia's vote to give the 2000 election to Bush than will EVER be killed by today's decision that trials of enemy combatants must adhere and conform to the US Constitution." - Jeremy Hylton
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"Improvements to the PLT Scheme language include better syntax for modules, better support for optional and keyword function arguments, more expressive syntax for structure types, streamlined hash-table operations, new syntax for list comprehensions and iterations, a more complete and consistent set of list and string operations, and reduced dependence on mutable pairs." - Jeremy Hylton
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"I think the 'Galactica' writers like Romo a lot more than the guy deserves, as he's less a character than a collection of colorful tics." - Jeremy Hylton
agreed. the last episode was not up to par :( - Neha Narula
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On May 17, 1999, the Remote Agent took control of Deep Space 1 to start the first of two on-board autonomy experiments. Being in mission control during these experiments was one of the most thrilling moments of my professional life! - Jeremy Hylton
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May 21 at 6:29 pm - Link
For the first time in history, astronomers have unambiguously observed the exact moment when a star explodes. - Jeremy Hylton
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Given what the language tests and my own experience taking the class (years ago), maybe it should go away. - Jeremy Hylton
Why do you say that? - ⓞnor
I learned a lot about the syntax and rules of Pascal when I took the class and next to nothing about concepts. In the C++ days, lots of teachers worried about whether students would be able to compile their code at all. Java doesn't seem like an improvement as a teaching language. - Jeremy Hylton
I already knew Pascal, but I learned a bunch of the classical CS stuff about algorithms and data structures: binary trees, sorting, that kind of thing. Looks like that's because I took AB (which is what they're cutting!) rather than A: http://www.collegeboard.com/st.... I feel like the class changed me from being a BASIC programmer who knew Pascal to being a Pascal programmer. - ⓞnor
Java doesn't seem like an improvement as a teaching language? Why not? - ƃuɐʞ
Why would it be? I mean, it's obviously good to use a real-world language, but from a strictly pedagogical point of view I don't see why Java would be better than Pascal. If anything, the OO stuff seems like a confusing distraction: to write "hello world" you have to explain about "class" and "public static", or just leave those words as magic boilerplate to be explained later. - ⓞnor
yeah, i think it's always better to not teach in languages that aren't really in common use -- cut out the middle man - j1m
Java is better than Pascal because real world people actually use Java. the majority of CS high school students are not going to go on to become hardcore software engineers.... - ƃuɐʞ
java is awfully verbose but pascal isn't that much better. languages with interactive loops seem like a nice thing for newcomers to experiment (and pascal, c, java all lack that). - Larry Greenfield
Why not just use python to teach? Is there some requirement to know about strong typing when you first learn to program? - Chris White
I think it might be fun to teach CS with Javascript. I feel like everything else is a million miles away from anything relevant or useful, but writing little Javascript toys that do simple things on web pages seems like it's something students could direct relate to. You could teach linked lists there as well as anywhere (though I have no idea why you would teach linked lists at all). - ⓞnor
brian kernighan uses javascript as a first language for his CS-for-non-majors course at princeton. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/co... - Larry Greenfield
Cool. I wonder if people like it. - ⓞnor
MIT is using Python for its intro class http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6... - Jeremy Hylton
Either javascript or Python seems like a better place to start than a language like java with so many rules and so much syntax. - Jeremy Hylton
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blitz indeed - j1m
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Nice. "Has anyone else done similar experiments with their iPhone?" - j1m
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"So in conclusion: lxml kicks ass." Wow, sure looks like it, I wonder if it makes serving-time DOM manipulation feasible. (Normally, I prefer simple string substitutions for performance, but a fast *and* hygienic templates would be great.) - ⓞnor
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