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Designing Anything: From Lego to Maths

Professor Harold Thimbleby · Gresham College

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Inside every complex gadget is a programming language. How are programming languages designed, and how should they be designed? What are the common design problems? A look at a range of programming languages: the language of Lego, the extraordinarily popular general purpose language Java, and the specialised mathematics programming language Mathematica.

The talk

  1. Designing Anything: From Lego to Maths 2003-03-13 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Harold Thimbleby
Year
2003
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science
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Gresham College
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