Ever since graduation, people have been asking me: “What’s now?” My answer has been an unequivocal: “I don’t know.” I used to think that by the time I finish...
At some point, you can’t get any further with linked lists, selection sort, and voodoo Big O, and you have to go get a real algorithms textbook and learn all that horrible math, at least a little. But which book? There are tons of them. I haven’t read every algorithms book out there, but I…
The joyous lion of theoretical computer science Boaz Barak is reporting on Avi Wigderson's book Mathematics and Computation which is on Avi's homepage. I read through an earlier version and it is highly recommended! Let me also recommend Avi's earlier survey on interaction between CS and math.
The 1.0.0 of Idris has been released just a few months back, just enough to start trying out the language and some of the possibilities dependent typing offers. Back in July, we implemented a type safe bowling kata in which we could not create a bowling game that would not satisfy the rules of the…