Sam Stokes on Research in your life and studies

Computer Archeology: The Smiley, where did it come from?

The Smiley, where did it come from?  Here is the first instance of the Smiley: 401298269,0,0 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read More...

Posted Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:16 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

WTF: Orbital Mechanics/Celestial Mechanics, Newton and Kepler’s Laws

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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:56 PM by SoCal Sam | 2 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#: Re-Thinking the syllabus for training engineers and scientists in programming

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Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 10:44 AM by SoCal Sam | 2 Comments

Professors: Get No Cost software for your students

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Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:03 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

WTF#: Curriculum for F# part 1, thinking about curriculum for CS

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Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 12:56 PM 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

F# variables or a return to BASIC?

In the example I used in the past post utilized the "let" command and it didn't have any data type, what's up with that? Oh it gets worse, the identifier (not variable) are immutable. That is the memory location of the identifier cannot be modified. To Read More...

Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 4:42 PM by SoCal Sam | 1 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