<div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>Count me in as well (I think.) <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2014 at 13:32, Harry Percival <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harry.percival@gmail.com" target="_blank">harry.percival@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Am enticed by this:<br><br><i>"you should like solving puzzles. An appreciation for early-90's MTV hip-hop can't hurt either."</i><br><br></div>And this:<br><i><br>"Our friend Maciej says these challenges are a good way to learn a new
language, so maybe now's the time to pick up Clojure or Rust."<br><br></i></div>Dying to learn Clojure yo.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To whoever mentioned Rust: thanks for mentioning it -- hadn't heard of it before and spent quite a bit of time reading about it last night... seems very interesting!</div><div><br></div><div>Re SICP/functional -- very much agree Harry. (Keep feeling/hearing the siren call of functional programming lately...) I'd like to add that there's a course on Coursera that uses Scala as the teaching language and that uses SICP (amongst one or 2 others) as reference: <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun">https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun</a> I expect it should run again in April or so and am intending to sit it when it's up next, would be nice to have someone else from a known context do it as well so one could likewise discuss things etc. (Maybe one could attempt the assignments in this course in both Scala & Clojure to enhance the learning experience.)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, hope you've all had a very good Christmas and wishing you all the best for the new year!</div><div><br></div><div>Walter</div></div>
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