teaching machines

Everywhere Pointer

My five-year-old son wanted to make an arrow. I one-upped him by making four arrows. He liked the shape and called it an “everywhere pointer.” We can make this with the following code: This code makes me realize I should try to add the unary negation operator. Right now I have to verbosely multiply by […]

Caterpillar

If we can make 2-D art out of nothing but dots on the paper, it seems we should be able to make 3-D objects out of nothing but spheres. And we now can in Madeup. I added a dot command, such that a sphere is placed at every point the programmer visits with a move command. […]

CS 245 Lecture 12 – Generic Sorted List

Agenda what ?s what does this do? polymorphism: inheritance and parametric program this What Does This Do? Program This Code … Haiku

Recursive Objects

Madeup now supports recursion: Including the function definition in the environment of a closure tripped me up considerably, but I think I got it figured out. Or maybe I didn’t. The lattice was generated with this code: Cleaning up the corners is a job for another day.

CS 245 Lab 6 – Generics

First, if you have checkpoints left over from last lab, get them inspected during the first 15 minutes of this lab. Don’t forget to work in pairs! Where possible, please work with someone that you did not work with last week. The exchange of new ideas and perspectives is not an opportunity you want to […]

CS 491 Lecture 11 – Task Navigation

Agenda what ?s git client available navigating between Activities using intents sharing data between Android tasks navigating between tasks using UINavigationController sharing data between iOS tasks TODO Read up on UINavigationController at  http://www.appcoda.com/use-storyboards-to-build-navigation-controller-and-table-view and https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UINavigationController_Class/Reference/Reference.html. 1/4 sheet. Sharing Data Between Activities If the data is a message from one Activity to another, use Intent extras. On the […]

CS 245 Lecture 11 – Set and Generics

Agenda what ?s what does this do? writing a set data type generalizing code without a supertype What Does This Do? Code VerdeganTest.java Set.java Haiku

First-person Math

Nothing brings together the remote reaches of computer science together like writing your own programming language. My abstract syntax tree exploits inheritance and polymorphism and multiple inheritance. My parsing is done in Java while the model of the program is built up of C++ classes. I’ve got tables, stacks, and vectors. Recursion is naturally all […]

CS 245 Lecture 10 – Abstract Classes

Agenda what ?s the inheritance spectrum abstract classes writing a travel diary with Google Earth TODO Read on Generics in chapter 12 through section 12.3 in Core Java. 1/4 sheet. Travel Diary Code TravelDiary.java Placemark.java LatLon.java PinPlacemark.java LinePlacemark.java RegionPlacemark.java Main.java Haiku

CS 245 Lab 5 – Recursion Continued

First, if you have checkpoints left over from last lab, get them inspected during the first 15 minutes of this lab. Don’t forget to work in pairs! Where possible, please work with someone that you did not work with last week. The exchange of new ideas and perspectives is not an opportunity you want to […]

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