Laurie Dillon just posted the SIGPLAN eduction board article on Why Undergraduates Should Learn the Principles of Programming Languages to our faculty mailing list at the MSU Computer Science department. One question that came up in the ensuing conversation was: what functional programming language(s) would/should we teach?
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Just got news that the BEACON NSF Science and Technology Center for the study of Evolution in Action funded Chris Adami to come do a sabbatical here at Michigan State University for the next year. This puts me, Chris, and Charles Ofria at the same institution (now MSU, then Caltech …
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I'd like to find an MSU student to report semi-monthly on python-dev. The student would be responsible for monitoring the python-dev mailing list and active PEPs, summarizing substantive discussions in a public forum, and integrating feedback from the community. This would be a 1 credit CSE independent study course (CSE …
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I'd like to invite you to attend the last of the Michigan State University CSE colloquia for the 2008-2009 academic year: jointly sponsored as an AT&T Visiting Lecturer by the MSU LCT, and the CSE department, Sam Ramji will speak about
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A fellow prof here at MSU, Rich Enbody, whipped up the following cheat-sheet for new programmers transitioning from Python (CSE 231) to C++ (CSE 232). He welcomes comments. Here's the link:
http://web.cse.msu.edu/~cse231/python2Cpp.html
Paranthetically, he and his cohort in crime, Bill Punch, will be …
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On Thursday, May 15th, I finished my post-doc position at Caltech.
On Friday, May 16th, I officially started as an Assistant Professor split between Computer Science & Engineering and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University.
On Friday evening and Saturday, we hung out down at the Caltech Marine Lab and …
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