This thread Ten things I didn’t know about MongoDB gives me a less positive impression of MongoDB. Rich Hickey: "I read relentlessly. I don’t do any programming not directed at making the computer do something useful, so I don’t do any exercises. I try to spend more time thinking about the problem than I do typing it in." (No exercises = no toy programs?) Clojure Bookshelf. Hal Abelson. (What do you think of the idea of encouraging students to think about finding interesting, worthwhile problems as part of the course?) Hadley Wickham. Advanced R development. Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R. Curry–Howard correspondence. Unboxed union types in Scala via the Curry-Howard isomorphism. HN. Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms (Interesting. Small thing: seems if any largely non-ASCII docs, eg, Chinese, were included, this could add some bias (bump up everyone's score up) since the cleaning step would leave them basically empty, ie, pretty easy to get right. What do you think of the 3D bar charts?)

Two Dogmas of Empiricism. The Intelligent Investor (Out of date?) Python progression path - From apprentice to guru. APL FAQ. Nial Open Source Project (follows in the path of APL). Michael Friendly: Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization.

The Joy of Concatenative Languages Part 1. The Joy of Concatenative Languages Part 2: Innately Functional. The Joy of Concatenative Languages Part 3: Kindly Types. The Cat Programming Language. ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES.