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The School Of Practical Philosophy: Philosophy Works - Week Six
Posted: February 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM by Ben Nadel
Week six of Philosophy Works at the School of Practical Philosophy was all about beauty. We started the class off by asking the question: what is beautiful? At first, I wasn't sure what to say. I could easily tell someone about the specific things that I find beautiful; but, it was not immediately apparent what kind of underlying theme might tie a... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure
Posted: January 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM by Ben Nadel
About two months ago, I started reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate . I went into the book with a significant understanding of only two programming Languages: ColdFusion and Javascript. Now, not only do I have a sense of how many programming languages there are out there (Tate's list of 7 was selected from over a hundred language... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Clojure - Day 3
Posted: January 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM by Ben Nadel
Day 3 of Clojure from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks took be about 4 hours to complete. And, to be completely honest, by the start of hour 3, I wanted to give up. This assignment only consisted of two problems: one that seemed straightforward, and one that was downright tortuous. Please keep in mind, as I present the following answers, that the ... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Clojure - Day 2
Posted: January 20, 2011 at 10:13 AM by Ben Nadel
Day 2 of Clojure from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks was fairly challenging. I'd say the following code took me about 4 hours to write. Part of this was obviously due to novelty of the language; but, I believe that part of the challenge in today's assignment was the fact that Tate's explanations were quite different than those that I subsequentl... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Clojure - Day 1
Posted: January 19, 2011 at 10:04 AM by Ben Nadel
After a few weeks off from my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate , I just started the sixth language: Clojure. Clojure is a version of LISP that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). LISP comes from the phrase, " Lis t P rocessing;" the reason for this will become evident the moment you look at the code which consists of list of... read more »
