Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Our first child, Madeleine Erica Wilson, came into the world at half past midnight on Saturday, March 31. She's a redhead, just like her mom, and has one, two, or ten of all appropriate body parts. We're very happy --- exhausted, but happy. May she love her ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Kwasi Kwakwa is a materials scientist who teaches computer-related subjects in Ghana. He recently posted pictures from a programming contest, the eventual aim of which is to assemble a national team for the International Programming Olympiad. It seems that every time I start to think that the web has done ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Beautiful Code now has a cover, and I can share the chapter summaries (below the cut). I'm very excited---hope to have hardcopy in a month or so.
Posted in Beautiful Code, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Alex Martelli is now at Google; here's a video of him talking about design patterns in Python (notes available as PDF). I'll post the second part when it appears.
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
As I was paging through the Google Summer of Code site this morning, I realized that I recognized less than half of the participating organizations. Ten minutes and twenty-five lines of Python later, I had all their descriptions in a single page for easier printing. (Note: it was only ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
The team that put together the "Engineering Strategies & Practice" (ESP) course at U of T just won an award from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. From the article:
ESP is required for all first-year engineering students, except those enrolled in engineering science, and includes standard lectures ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
If you wait long enough, someone will build an interactive front-end for anything. DrJava, for example, comes with a little interpreter that lets users type in simple expressions to explore the state of their code, while the people building the software for the particle detectors in the next-generation collider at ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Starting in September 2007, the University of Toronto will replace its current three-course sequence in software engineering with two new courses. The first, CSC301, will be suitable for students in all streams; the second will primarily target Software Engineering specialists, though we expect a significant number of students from ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
http://task.to/events/upcoming.php has all the details. Some of these look very interesting; if you attend, and blog, please add a link.
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The Computer Science Graduate Student Benevolent Society (CSGSBS) has chosen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to show at movie night next week. In response, not one, but two professors in our department have suggested that people also watch Martin Durkin's trash-science "documentary" The Great Global Warming Swindle. If the most ...
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