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Rio Waller
May 21, 2012, 9:06:19 PM5/21/12
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Hello Everyone,
Subject: Re: gUniversity Consortium - Needs you!
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> Hi Rio… Hi Wesley…
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> I'm following the group more from afar -- I retired a couple months ago. Before that I did a couple things that might be of interest:
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> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/md-2011-1/>
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> a course on mobile development that tries to focus on cross-platform but has projects on Android and iOS as well.
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> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/go-2011-2/>
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> a course on Go that tries to focus on systems programming, web (server) programming, and functional programming.
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> Both courses are build on a pattern where students are expected to push the envelope in projects. The project writeups give links to useful documentation but it is up to the students to leverage that. All projects come with sample solutions.
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> Since retirement I have been tinkering with converting some of this to an electronic book format. Turns out that Apple's iBook Author is not too useful (only for iOS and buggy and undocumented there), and that Apple's Pages produces eBooks only to a point which does not include pre-formatted text, e.g., source code. So I had to rig things manually (as other tools such as Sigil also don't cater to CS authors). You can see the proof of concept at
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> <http://schreiner-family.net/classes/go>
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> What I'd really like to do is to finish a completely interactive tutorial for compiler construction (I wrote an introductory book on this in 1982 and it is begging for an update). One version -- which requires a backend and, unfortunately, Google appEngine is not quite up to that -- is at
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> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/cc-2010-2/tutorial/>
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> but I have since written a compiler generator in JavaScript which I'd like to port to Dart just to see if that is more suitable as the running example for the tutorial:
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> <>http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/talks/page/talk.pdf>
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> Enjoy!
Professor Schreiner from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) asked that I share this with the group.
Rio :)
Subject: Re: gUniversity Consortium - Needs you!
>
> Hi Rio… Hi Wesley…
>
> I'm following the group more from afar -- I retired a couple months ago. Before that I did a couple things that might be of interest:
>
> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/md-2011-1/>
>
> a course on mobile development that tries to focus on cross-platform but has projects on Android and iOS as well.
>
> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/go-2011-2/>
>
> a course on Go that tries to focus on systems programming, web (server) programming, and functional programming.
>
> Both courses are build on a pattern where students are expected to push the envelope in projects. The project writeups give links to useful documentation but it is up to the students to leverage that. All projects come with sample solutions.
>
> Since retirement I have been tinkering with converting some of this to an electronic book format. Turns out that Apple's iBook Author is not too useful (only for iOS and buggy and undocumented there), and that Apple's Pages produces eBooks only to a point which does not include pre-formatted text, e.g., source code. So I had to rig things manually (as other tools such as Sigil also don't cater to CS authors). You can see the proof of concept at
>
> <http://schreiner-family.net/classes/go>
>
> What I'd really like to do is to finish a completely interactive tutorial for compiler construction (I wrote an introductory book on this in 1982 and it is begging for an update). One version -- which requires a backend and, unfortunately, Google appEngine is not quite up to that -- is at
>
> <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/cc-2010-2/tutorial/>
>
> but I have since written a compiler generator in JavaScript which I'd like to port to Dart just to see if that is more suitable as the running example for the tutorial:
>
> <>http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/talks/page/talk.pdf>
>
> Enjoy!
Rio Waller
May 22, 2012, 11:41:57 AM5/22/12
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Thanks Ohad! It is fixed below!
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Rio Waller <riow...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,Professor Schreiner from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) asked that I share this with the group.Rio :)
Subject: Re: gUniversity Consortium - Needs you!
>
> Hi Rio… Hi Wesley…
>
> I'm following the group more from afar -- I retired a couple months ago. Before that I did a couple things that might be of interest:
>
>
> a course on mobile development that tries to focus on cross-platform but has projects on Android and iOS as well.
>
>
> a course on Go that tries to focus on systems programming, web (server) programming, and functional programming.
>
> Both courses are build on a pattern where students are expected to push the envelope in projects. The project writeups give links to useful documentation but it is up to the students to leverage that. All projects come with sample solutions.
>
> Since retirement I have been tinkering with converting some of this to an electronic book format. Turns out that Apple's iBook Author is not too useful (only for iOS and buggy and undocumented there), and that Apple's Pages produces eBooks only to a point which does not include pre-formatted text, e.g., source code. So I had to rig things manually (as other tools such as Sigil also don't cater to CS authors). You can see the proof of concept at
>
ravchild
Jun 30, 2012, 3:31:04 AM6/30/12
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great content you have i am combing through it right now seems to be worth my struggle. am from JKUAT kenya and aspiring mobile app developer. so let me ask, follow this link and tell me what am doing wrong and what id i need to access the documents......
https://mail1.scccd.edu/owa/auth/logon.aspx?replaceCurrent=1&reason=2&url=https%3a%2f%2fmail1.scccd.edu%2fowa%2fredir.aspx%3fC%3de484d104d338459e9602a9e1038571d8%26URL%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.cs.rit.edu%252f%257eats%252fmd-2011-1%252f
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