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I know this is slightly off topic for LtU, but I see Philip Wadler is collecting material aimed at introducing students and the general public to the discipline of computation, a subject near and dear to my heart.

I will not elaborate my thoughts on this subject here, but I remind people interested in this topic to search the LtU archive (specifically the teaching and learning department) since items related to this goal have appeared here occasionally.

This is also a chance to mention again my suggestion that someone translate Doug Hofstadter's Scientific American columns introducing Scheme to a general audience into Haskell.

By Ehud Lamm at 2006-09-30 14:49 | Teaching & Learning | other blogs | 9457 reads

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Hofstadter articles?

So, you got a pointer to the Hofstadter articles?

(being hopelessly stuck on the SICP translation)

By Chris Rathman at Sat, 2006-09-30 17:20 | login or register to post comments

It's in Metamagical Themas.

It's in Metamagical Themas. I don't think the articles are available online.

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2006-09-30 17:42 | login or register to post comments

Scans

Lamm: as it happens, I have the 50 or so pages from the three chapters in Metamagical Themas scanned onto my computer (big 6 meg JPEGS, many not even flipped). Would you be interested in hosting them or passing them onto to somone who might want to use them?

By marudubshinki at Fri, 2006-10-27 18:52 | login or register to post comments

Copyright

We can't host copyrighted material on this server without the permission of the copyright holder.

By Anton van Straaten at Fri, 2006-10-27 19:38 | login or register to post comments