To Jeff's dismay? I'd thought this came from him... was it one of your contributions to Julia? It dismayed me at first, to see how much my son liked it ;-)
On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 4:59:09 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > There's something psychologically powerful about string interpolation, > much to Jeff's dismay. > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Scott Jones <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> It's funny, I didn't care too much about string interpolation at first >> (as you know!), but after I saw how Alex took to it, I've reconsidered... >> he thought it was the coolest thing. >> >> On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 4:07:33 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> This is really cool to hear about! >>> >>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Keith Campbell <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Scott, >>>> Just bumped across an old IJulia Notebook my 9-year old and I did >>>> last year. He was getting '24' problems (use +,-,*,/ with 4 numbers to >>>> make 24) and got one he swore couldn't be solved. We put together a >>>> little brute-force solver to test that out -- he was right. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I spruced it up a little and presented to his class, where >>>> they had a good time playing with it. You can see the notebook at: >>>> https://github.com/catawbasam/catawbasam_sandbox/blob/master/Julia_24.ipynb >>>> >>>> We actually started off with Python, but switched to Julia, largely >>>> because Julia's syntax is a little closer to the math notation the kids >>>> are >>>> used to seeing. >>>> regards, >>>> Keith >>>> >>> >>> >
