The article defines the SCMPDS computer and its instructions. The SCMPDS computer consists of such instructions as conventional arithmetic, ”goto”, ”return” and ”save instruction-counter” (”saveIC” for short). The address used in the ”goto” instruction is an offset value rather than a pointer in the standard sense. Thus, we don’t define halting instruction directly but define it by ”goto 0” ins...

We describe how a para-functional programming language is applied to implementing parallel computer algebra algorithms on a shared memory multiproces-sor. The language we use is pD, a small functional language that we have developed as a high-level programming interface for the parallel computer algebra package PACLIB. pD provides several facilities to express parallel algorithms in a exible wa...

The article defines the SCMPDS computer and its instructions. The SCMPDS computer consists of such instructions as conventional arithmetic, “goto”, “return” and “save instruction-counter” (“saveIC” for short). The address used in the “goto” instruction is an offset value rather than a pointer in the standard sense. Thus, we don’t define halting instruction directly but define it by “goto 0” ins...

In this chapter, we advocate for a task-driven approach to teaching computer programming to students of the digital humanities (DH). Our perspective is grounded first in Birnbaum’s (2014) plenary address to the University of Pittsburgh Faculty Senate (Birnbaum 2014), in which he argued that coding, like writing, should be taught across the liberal arts curriculum in domain-appropriate ways. Thi...

This paper describes a plan to integrate current digital hardware design technology into the computer science hardware curriculum. The project will approach digital hardware design from a perspective familiar to computer science students. Techniques featuring Object Oriented Design (OOD), Object Oriented Programming (OOP), code reuse, rapid prototyping, project centered learning, and visualizat...

The choice of which programming language to use in introductory computer science courses is guaranteed to spark debate in the computer science community. Programming languages used in computer science instruction have followed various trends or fads within the computing industry. The language choice has often been between languages which are currently in wide use by industry for software produc...

This short paper will present Vuza, a new functional language for computer music and creative coding. The keypoint of the language is to bring the expressivity and the flexiblity of functional programming to digital art and computer music and make possible to embed such power in host applications. Vuza is a general purpose language with specific extensions for sound analysis and synthesis in re...