Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

WTF#: Changing the curriculum on programming for scientists and engineers

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Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 8:39 AM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

WTF#: Could F# have saved the Mars Climate Orbiter?

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Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:05 PM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

WTF#: F#, and the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) crash in 1998

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Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 1:41 PM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

WTF#: Syllabus for the rest of the students at a university, with a focus on Functional Programming

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Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:29 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

F#, Imperative Languages and Identifiers

OMG! I got pulled off my usual job of doing a bunch of things and have been focused on getting students involved in the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational in the United States. Then it was Christmas and I ate to many cookies, etc. Finally I ignored Read More...

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 1:21 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

Using F# to solve a standard engineering problem

F# has many interesting features, such as the use of lists, maps, and so forth. There are many blogs and websites dedicated to discussing the computer science side of F#, and for good reason the language supports these types of efforts. However, what Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:59 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

Happy Birthday John Blackus, inventor of FORTRAN

Dec. 3 is the birthday of John Blackus, he was one of the principle inventors of FORTRAN, see the article found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORTRAN In my opinion, John Blackus best quote describing a motivation to continue to create programming systems: Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:24 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments