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UPDATE 2/20/2006: After about a month, the project is now finished. You can go through the series and read my explanations for each step, or you can just page through and gander at the pretty pictures. If you’re the impatient … Read more

31 Jul 2024Progress: Complete Is it possible to add optical wireless communication to a circuit, without adding any more components to it? Let’s find out. Preamble I don’t have much amateur radio experience (none at all, specifically) but I do … Read more

Unison is a MIT-licensed programming language, in development since 2013, that explores the ramifications of making code immutable and stored in a database, instead of a set of text files. Unison supports a greatly simplified model for distributed programming — … Read more

Programming with Lambda Calculus Lambda calculus is a fascinating topic for the following reasons. It is simple. It just consists of variables, functions and function applications. Despite of being simple it is possible to express any computable function in the … Read more

Pretend you have a really great programming day.  You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don’t get distracted or interrupted much, don’t have to do a bunch of status or time reporting, and … Read more

Learning how to create games for the original PlayStation is a great excuse to explore really hardcore computer science topics. As we learn different aspects of the 32-bit generation of consoles, we’ll touch important concepts like algorithms, data structures, data … Read more

import “ecere” #include class Spell { public: int difficulty; int damage; int manaCost; virtual void Backfire(Creature self, Creature opponent) { self.health -= damage/4; } virtual void Success(Creature self, Creature opponent) { if(damage > opponent.health) damage = opponent.health; PrintLn(self._class.name, ” did … Read more