On-Topic Re: [Coco] Back to school

[John Donaldson]

Jim,
   There wa a I/O board made tht plugedd into the COCO. I think David K 
made it IFRC

John Donaldson



Jim Cox wrote:

> Boisy:
>
> Thanks so much for the encouragement and insight.  My long term focus 
> is to work with C in embedded systems, scientific intrumentation 
> (meteorology, oceanography, astronomy) or robotics (I have some 
> interestng ideas so possibly all three)
>
> As you know, I have some ideas for the CoCo, but until I get a better 
> grasp of C and refresh my electronics (it's gotten very rusty working 
> in IT and systems testing) I really do not want to promise anything. I 
> do have a lot of ideas I may throw out there for other to chew on though.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -Jim
>
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:13:09 -0500
>  Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:
>
>> That's great Jim.  You will find that taking the fun part in taking  
>> these courses is not only learning something new, but relating it  
>> back in someway to your CoCo.
>>
>> One of the courses I am taking this semester is Programming  
>> Languages, where we investigate the ways and methods in which  
>> computer programming languages are constructed, designed and  
>> represented.  Listening to the lecture and reading the book have  
>> given me an appreciation for how languages like Basic09 were created, 
>> the historical context in which they were born, and the design  
>> decisions that, at the time, were based on language conventions of  
>> the day.
>>
>> Along with the lecture, which is full of theory, there are  
>> assignments which are keeping us busy, and introducing us to knew  
>> languages at the same time.  The semester project has us writing an  
>> interpreter for the Algol 60 language... in SNOBOL.  We just 
>> received  our in-semester assignment... writing a Hindley-Milner type 
>> inferencing algorithm in a language called ML (that's ML for Meta- 
>> Language).
>>
>> For me, all of this just sparks my imagination on what cool 
>> languages  we could use to create programs for our CoCos.  Of course, 
>> we have  Basic09 which is a pretty darned good language in its on 
>> right.   There is Pascal which is also a good language, and of 
>> course, C.  But there are so many other languages that could be 
>> investigated, some  interpretive, some compiled.  Even the idea of 
>> creating a new  programming language designed for the specific 
>> features and memory  footprint of the CoCo is an interesting idea.
>>
>> Get everything that you can out of the class, and as an aside, think  
>> of creative ways in which you can apply this knowledge to the CoCo.
>>
>> Boisy
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2005, at 1:07 AM, Clifford Redding wrote:
>>
>>> Let me be the first to say "good luck"! I for one just can't get my  
>>> head around "C" even though I have tried it in the past. Maybe I'll  
>>> try again with it sometime soon! Yup. Sure, Maybe i'll just stick  
>>> with Basic09.
>>>
>>>
>>> Clifford
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cox" <jimcox at miba51.com>
>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:20 PM
>>> Subject: [Coco] Back to school
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I sent an email to some people privately, but I thought I'd share  
>>>> this with the list too.  Last Wednesday was my first day of C  
>>>> Programming class.  I'm coming into this with about a year of OJT  
>>>> experience of C programming and I am looking forward to build a  
>>>> nice foundation in the language.  After a 23 year detour, I feel I  
>>>> am finally back on track.
>>>>
>>>> I want to say thanks to the many of you who have helped me in the  
>>>> past, not just with CoCo stuff, but with many other things.  While  
>>>> I haven't done a lot with the CoCo lately, I do feel that my  
>>>> involvment with this list and with many of my CoCo friends has  
>>>> kept me going to the point to where I am now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks all.
>>>>
>>>> -Jim
>>>>
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