​​Ramsey - Radical Computer Science #6
​​Full Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B032dop_WshkV1o3NmViSmNGQzg/view?usp=sharing
​​“When we’re building programming tools, we’re building human experiences.”
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​​Run C# on Mac OS X: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/languages/csharp/
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​​Mariko Kosaka - How to Be a Compiler
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​​Design by Numbers 
  • ​​Eventually became Processing
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​​Mariko’s “SVG by Numbers” - https://kosamari.github.io/sbn/
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​​Logo Interpreter - http://calormen.com/jslogo/
  • ​​Mindstorms, by Seymour Papert. Seminal text on teaching computer programming to kids.
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​​Baku’s compiler - https://github.com/baku89/ramsey-mal
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​​rl.on
  • ​​“read line” - have a lot of conveniences built in for people using terminal
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​​A lot of languages don’t have a REPL: C++
  • ​​more dynamic languages have REPLs, more static langs don’t
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​​“We’re imbuing meaning on what the user has done.”
  • ​​“That decision happens in the ‘read’ phase.”
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​​This class: parse symbols and lists, and evaluation.

​​“The roommate getting a bagel” metaphor
  • ​​If Bryan’s going to the deli and asks if you want a bagel and you say ‘yeah’…
  • ​​Bryan gets to the deli but there’s three kinds of bagels…
  • ​​So Bryan comes home and sets your house on fire.
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​​Building parsers is the same thing^^^^
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​​Error messages are man-made.
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​​The “silent error”:
  • ​​Bryan comes home. “Where’s my bagel?”, you say. “You are already have your bagel.” or “You hate bagels.”, says Bryan.
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​​Adding the ability to read strings to your parser.
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​​Important Javascript(?) syntax: