BYU CS330 Forum - Latest Comments

Re: Homework #35

JesseJ — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:37:22 -0000

Hooray!

Re: Homework submission site is now available

Gtm — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:33:16 -0000

Looks like the system does not log you in automatically after you create an account. You'll have to log in from the submission page again and submit it. At least this worked for me.

Re: Homework submission site is now available

Rich — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:04:56 -0000

I got that error when I attempted to get to the submission page from the homework 3 page; it seems to work if you go from the CS330 main page.

Re: Homework submission site is now available

clementi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:01:06 -0000

Just tried the homework submitter and got this:

Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object in /users/home2/ta/cs330ta/public_html/cs330/grades/datahelper.php on line 161

Re: Scheme vs. Haskell

Phil Windley — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:02 -0000

Thanks Mirza. This is helpful and I think your comments RE large code
bases is worth thinking about

Re: Scheme vs. Haskell

Mirza Garibovic — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:43:30 -0000

I've been rewriting some of my short C++ programs in Haskell to get a feel for it. Cool things:

- pure functional -> referential transparency -> lazy & recursive data types
- strong, static, optional, inferred typing gives you terse no-junk syntax, yet keeps all that nice compile-time checking
- terse syntax for pattern matching, guards, currying, lambdas

I used to really enjoy Scheme, but working with a non-trivial body of code (like the interpreter) without compile-time type checking has been revealing. I'm still undecided about explicit parens vs. syntax.

Regarding Scheme/Haskell vs. Java as an intro language, I think SphericalCow makes a good point in the comments of that article: At the point in the semester that my students are learning for-loops, my intro class had already covered function-as-object, frames/closures, recursion (normal and tail), and was starting into trees and other data structures.

Re: Can Your Programming Language Do MapReduce?

Phil Windley — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:43:23 -0000

As long as you remember that the reason they did it is so that they'd never have to do it again. :-)

Re: Can Your Programming Language Do MapReduce?

Mirza Garibovic — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:29:42 -0000

Not having syntactical support for nested and anonymous functions is tedious, but it didn't stop Google from implementing MapReduce in C++.

http://labs.google.com/pape...

Re: Identity Paper

Aman — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:01:47 -0000

I am in need of a foolproof set of Identity papers.

Re: Ruby Programming Job

Phil Windley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:39:49 -0000

Just a test to see if the new comment system works!

Re: Don't forget to create a Mantis account

Phil Windley — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:37:29 -0000

Just a test!