their restive minds - register
NOW.
website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ppig2011/
NB I'm away next week: queries to Alistair Edwards, please, the co-
chair.
(Please forward)
Thomas Green
co-chair
Visiting Professor
University of Leeds, University of York
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Kevlin Henney wrote:
To really demonstrate autoboxing you need to allow the compiler to
convert from int to Integer:
Integer x = 1000;
Integer y = 1000;
However, if you are after interesting counterintuitive corner cases,
change the constant to 100:
Integer x = 100;
Integer y =
On 19 Mar 2011, at 09:55, Stefano Federici wrote:
what I claim is the easiest programming environment ever designed so
far).
Er, yes. You might need to restrict what you mean by
'programming' . I regard using spreadsheets as programming. But
Scratch is very good at its job, to be
And where do people want to put Inform 7, the interactive fiction
language that is a subset of English and has some semantic inference
built in?
http://inform7.com/
Is it a programming language? a restricted natural language? both?
neither?
Thomas
On 4 Mar 2011, at 17:17, Kari Laitinen
, C such that your
theory says A B C. The statistical power is much better.
Don't forget to talk to the people afterwards and get their opinions.
Sometimes you can find they weren't playing the same game that you were.
Good luck
Thomas Green
On 1 Mar 2011, at 11:20, Stefano Federici
On 1 Mar 2011, at 14:29, Stefano Federici wrote:
Do you have any references to similar evalutations?
Now that Alan and Chuck have made the text of 'Psychology if
Programming' available again, you might start there. Also look for
work by Jorma Sajaniemi in Finland, and for lots of work
the tasks, and so on. You may find some
surprises - I certainly have done.
Can't think of anything else just now but open to questions. Good luck
and make sure the results are made public!
Thomas Green
On 16 Jul 2010, at 07:42, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Alan
