Etudes for programmers

Creating Pedagogical Etudes for Interactive Instruments

In this paper I discuss the importance of and need for pedagogical materials to support the development of new interfaces and new instruments for electronic music. I describe my method for creating a graduated series of pedagogical etudes composed using Max/MSP. The etudes will help performers and instrument designers learn the most commonly used basic skills necessary to perform with interacti...

Practical algorithms for programmers

"Practical Algorithms for Programmers" fails to deliver what is mentioned by authors as "The purpose of this book is providing a practical compendium of algorithms for use in applications" and "Most algorithm books today are either academic text books or rehash of the same tired set of algorithms". This book goes over that tired set of algorithms over again (B-Trees, bubble sort, shell sort etc...

Haskell for OCaml programmers

This introduction to Haskell is written to optimize learning by programmers who already know OCaml.

Searching for Tomorrow's Programmers

Interest in beginning a career in programming is declining. Programming is no longer selling itself to novices at high school and university levels as well as it once did. This paper considers why this is the case, what may happen if this trend continues, and what can be done to restore interest for the next generation of programmers.

Algorithms for Programmers