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Strange Code : Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again by Ronald T. Kneusel (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNo Starch Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101718502400
ISBN-139781718502406
eBay Product ID (ePID)16057273459
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameStrange Code : Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again
SubjectProgramming Languages / General, Computer Science, Programming / Open Source, General
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
AuthorRonald T. Kneusel
Subject AreaMathematics, Computers
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight32.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-011375
Reviews"A fascinating and thought-provoking tour through programming languages. Strange Code guides you through some mostly forgotten languages--such as Forth, SNOBOL, and CLIPS--before exploring more experimental languages--such as Piet--where your source code is an image. I particularly enjoyed Firefly, a language for the BBC micro:bit, created especially for the book." --Sean McManus, Author of Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game!, "A fascinating and thought-provoking tour through programming languages. Strange Code guides you through some mostly forgotten languages--such as Forth, SNOBOL, and CLIPS--before exploring more experimental languages--such as Piet--where your source code is an image. I particularly enjoyed Firefly, a language for the BBC micro:bit, created especially for the book." --Sean McManus, Author of Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game! "[Gives] a grounding in the basics of concepts like Turing Completeness without leaving readers to fend for themselves in a forest of of dense computer science arcana. As a reference and source for teachers, Strange Code has much to commend it." --Terry Freedman, Teach Secondary magazine, "[No Starch Press] had me at 'esolangs' . . . I am almost always a fan of a book that talks about how to build a programming language. This one not only talks about some of the concepts involved in doing that, and shows how to build two custom languages (Filska and Firefly), AND talks about a few popular esoteric languages and how they warp your brain in a good way, it takes the unusual step of examining some languages that Kneusel describes as 'atypical,' which have some interesting and useful properties. His coverage of CLIPS, alone, is worth the price of admission here. The knowledge gained here is foundational, and will help [you] with all sorts of different kinds of applications . . . I think every programmer should read it." --Ted Neward, "The Dude of Software," Principal, Neward & Associates; Technologist, Executive Leader, Speaker/Author "A fascinating and thought-provoking tour through programming languages. Strange Code guides you through some mostly forgotten languages--such as Forth, SNOBOL, and CLIPS--before exploring more experimental languages--such as Piet--where your source code is an image. I particularly enjoyed Firefly, a language for the BBC micro:bit, created especially for the book." --Sean McManus, Author of Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game! "[Gives] a grounding in the basics of concepts like Turing Completeness without leaving readers to fend for themselves in a forest of of dense computer science arcana. As a reference and source for teachers, Strange Code has much to commend it." --Terry Freedman, Teach Secondary magazine
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal005.13
Table Of ContentPart I: On Programming Languages Chapter 1: A Cherry-Picked Review of Programming Languages Chapter 2: The Essentials of Programming Languages Chapter 3: Turing Machines and Turing Completeness Part II: Atypical Programming Languages Chapter 4: Forth Chapter 5: SNOBOL Chapter 6: CLIPS Part III: Esoteric Programming Languages Chapter 7: The ABCs of ABCs Chapter 8: FRACTRAN Chapter 9: Piet Chapter 10: Brainfuck Chapter 11: Befunge Part IV: Homegrown Esolangs Chapter 12: Filska Chapter 13: Using Filska Chapter 14: Firefly Chapter 15: Using Firefly Chapter 16: Going Further Appendix A: Genetic Programming with Firefly
SynopsisExplore the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric programming languages. Beginning with the history and theory of programming languages, addressing concepts like Turing machines and Turing completeness. Then a tour of three 'atypical' programming languages, real languages that are unusual and require out of the box thinking. Then, five chapters on existing esoteric languages (esolangs). Finally, the remaining chapters detail the development and use of two entirely new programming languages.
LC Classification NumberQA76.7.K59 2022
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