Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 15, 2024

• College robots, tweaked with Scratch, inspire younger students

  Brody Riopelle, an engineer in the U-M Robotics Department, is working to introduce younger students without any programming knowledge to robotics.

• Perl / Raku

  • Rakulang ☛ RakudoWeekly 2024.42 Burritonads

    Steve Roe continued their series about functional programming in the Raku Programming Language with Raku Burritos, looking at translating code from F# and introducing a >>= infix operator. Interesting stuff! On Microsoft's proprietary prison Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Will Coleda has posted a request for Microsoft's proprietary prison Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub to make the ordering of the Rakudo release announcements a bit more logical.

• Python

  • Rlang ☛ Gradient-Boosting anything (alert: high performance): Part2, R version

    Gradient boosting with any regression algorithm in Python package mlsauce.

• Games

  • Thorsten Ball ☛ Joy & Curiosity #10

    Last week we took the kids to a small amusement park. We got there early and when we walked in, employees of the park were still getting the park ready for the day: sweeping, feeding animals, raking leaves, putting new bags in trash cans. And I kept thinking: “this is exactly like in Rollercoaster Tycoon!”

    So this week, let me remind you: “Sawyer wrote 99% of the code for RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language for the Microsoft Macro Assembler, with the remaining one percent written in C.”