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As a student teacher i am very interested in how effective "mini languages" such as Scratch, Logo, Alice and Lego mindstorms are in teaching the pupil the core concepts of programing such as variables, fuctions and loops.
Is one "mini language" better than another for teaching these basic core…
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I always thought that parentheses improved readability, but in my textbook there is a statement that the use of parentheses dramatically reduces the readability of a program. Does anyone have any examples?
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I am a beginner (a little more than that) programmer of C. I am really interested in the field of Virtual Machines.
When I read about the Python VM, the PyPy project, the advancements in JVM technology, Google V8, the Erlang VM, I really get excited about these amazing pieces of technology, and really…
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I'm putting together a presentation to talk about and demo node.js to client-side JavaScript developers. The language concepts and syntax are not an issue for them, so instead I'd like to get right into things and show off node's abilities that differ from client-side scripting. There are numerous…
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Hi,
Some Java developers have asked if I could give them a 2-day primer on Grails development. I'm assuming they're familiar with:
Java language and libraries
Java web development, e.g. Servlets, JSPs
Spring
Hibernate
Client-side development, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
I'm further assuming they have…
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