Tag Archives: programming

Computing optimal play for the greedy coins game, part 4

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Brent

Last time I explained a method for computing best play for instances of the greedy coins game, which is feasible even for large games. This general approach is known as dynamic programming and is applicable whenever we have some recursively … Continue reading →

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FARM 2013: call for demonstration proposals

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Brent

Do you enjoy writing beautiful code to produce beautiful artifacts? Have something cool to show off at the intersection of functional programming and visual art, music, sound, modeling, visualization, or design? The deadline for submitting a paper has passed, but … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Brent

Wearing my PhD-student hat, I’m helping organize a workshop, FARM, to be held in Boston this September. I thought it worth mentioning since some readers of this blog—especially those interested in the intersection of math, art, and programming—may find it … Continue reading →

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What I Do, Part 1: Programming languages

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Brent

[This is the second in an occasional series of posts explaining what I do in my “day job” as a computer science PhD student. The idea is to write a series of posts of increasing specificity, but all aimed at … Continue reading →

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Blockly

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Brent

It seems that Google is developing a graphical programming language called Blockly, inspired by Scratch but web-based, with the ability to compile down to JavaScript, Dart, or Python (or raw XML, so you can process it further). I can’t say … Continue reading →

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