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Clojure is a dynamically, strongly typed programming language. It's a dialect of _Lisp_ running on the Java Virtual Machine. Lisp is 6 decades old and has a really weird syntax. That weird syntax is called _Polish prefix notation_. Basically, in every other language you've used math operators like plus or minus are infix. It means they are placed between operands. For example, `1 + 2`. In Clojure, you always put the operator (or any other function for that matter) in front. So simple addition becomes... `+ 1 2`.
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Last week Aisha Blake hosted me for a conversation about computer science education, from designing an activity to a session to a course. Luckily, we got this recording, so you can watch it anytime! Here's that link to the recording again. Additional notes on what we covered: First, here is the "Designing a Course" blog...
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Passing data through a pipeline of transformations is an alternative approach to classic Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). The LINQ methods in .NET are designed around this, but the pipeline approach can be used for so much more than manipulating collections. This presentation looks at pipeline-oriented programming and how it relates to functional programming, the open-closed principle,
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[AI summary] The author reminds readers about the ongoing Advent of Code 2019 programming challenge, which releases two daily problems from December 1st to 25th, and mentions their personal progress and encouragement for others to participate.
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