“One day in 1979, while logged in to San Diego State University’s principal computer from his home, #VernorVinge found himself chatting to another user via the #TALK program, both using implausible names and trying to figure out each other’s true name. “Afterwards, I realised that I had just lived a #ScienceFiction story – at least by the standards of my childhood,””
Please join us for the second SIGCAS Works in Progress event of 2024 where Julia Gersey will be giving an opening talk on "Fine-Grained Air Quality Sensing with Internet-of-Things" and Dr. Trystan Goetze will be giving a talk on "Soothsayers, Illusionists, Con Artists, and 'Artificial Intelligence'"!
The talks will be on May 3rd 2024 at 12pm EDT (4pm UTC).
Registration is required for the event where you can register here:
The Evolution of Computer Science | Studying in the Early Nineties => Short clip from the Leanpub Frontmatter podcast with Simon Brown, author of Software Architecture for Developers => The link to the full interview is here => https://youtu.be/PLjVbjmGe5U#podcastclips#books#computerscience#technology
» is being scrutinised by scientist over his claims that a computer passed the "Turing Test"« ?!
» The scientist later implanted sensors and a microchip into the nerves in his arm, similar to an implant he also gave to his wife, so that when someone grasped her hand Prof Warwick was able to experience the same sensation in his. « ?? !!
I've been #programming for 14 years now, have been using #PHP, #JavaScript, #ColdFusion, #Ruby, and whatnot, but holy cow, when reading the following chapter, I've literally been yelling "what the heck" at every second paragraph:
I mean, #PonyLang really tries to explain everything in depth, and I appreciate the effort, but while it works fine in earlier chapters, it confuses the heck out of me in this at length.
I'm looking at textbooks for fall courses. There are plenty out there, including a lot free online. Some are too heavy for the intended audience, some are too light, some don't organize or present things in the way I'd like, and plenty are just mediocre.
What makes a book stand out as something I'd ask students to buy? Lots of useful diagrams and lots of exercises.
If you have a text file in the format of [LastName], [FirstName] [MiddleName] in #python and you are trying to append all of the first names to a list named firstNames, use a for line in data loop then firstNames.append(line[line.find(" ") + 1:][:line[line.find(" ") + 1:].find(" ")]).
Is there a program execution model in which the code is directly evaluated as an expression and the result is recorded in place as opposed to just executing it and recording the result in a new memory location?