Posted by: generalmaximus on: July 12, 2008
A few months ago, I had started learning Common Lisp from the freely available Lisp text Practical Common Lisp. As the following posts might have indicated, I gave up the pursuit in favor of learning Ruby instead. Afterwards I mentioned that I was going to learn a functional programming language, any language, so I could [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 30, 2008
The CBSE class 10 and 12 results have been out for a while (and so have I). They’re (e)mailing out large text files containing school-wise results if you happen to have your school code (it’s written on your admit card as “School Number”).
Large text files containing statistics and I don’t do anything with them? Impossible. I whipped up a quick Ruby script that can calculate and [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 17, 2008
Peppy is a very nice XEmacs like text editor written in Python using the WxWidgets toolkit. It’s a godsend for people like me who need to fully control their text editor, but do not want to learn a completely new domain specific language like Elisp or Vimscript. Now I can write plugins for my text editor using [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 8, 2008
I’m not really a Windows person. I prefer to use Linux simply because of the large repository of free development tools it offers. I’ve never had to dig too much to find the library/IDE/text editor/compiler/interpreter I wanted.
Today I just wanted to browse around the web a bit, so I booted into Windows (which I normally [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 5, 2008
I downloaded and got Python running on my mom’s old Nokia 6600. Heaven! I can actually program on the move! The best part is that PyS60 is officially supported and hence has a large, complete and stable API that I can use to control every aspect of the phone. The only qualm is that PyS60 [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 31, 2008
I’ve been taught C++ at school (although I learnt all of it in class 11th) and I’ve learnt C on my own. I’ve also learnt most of Python, and with some help from the online documentation, I can hack together whatever scripts I want to.
Now I love Python and C (don’t talk about C++, it’s [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 21, 2008
I just read the first chapter and I swear it’s the best programming book I’ve read since The C Programming Language. I had been looking all over the web for a decent enough Ruby tutorial that would teach me the complete language and at the same time not be full of shit. I regret to [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 16, 2008
I give my math exam on 20th March, 2008. After that I have the Computer Science exam on 31st, but I’ll be damned if I spend more than 4 days studying computers. You know what this means?
I know.
I’m free.
No school, no homework, no MM … nothing. Best of all, no crappy NCERT textbooks to destroy [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 10, 2008
Sure, I know Python. But do I really know Python? Skimming through the official documentation shows that I know most of the usual stuff I’m supposed to know so I can write small, one off scripts for everyday use. But I was recently skimming through O’Reilly’s Learning Python and it seems that there is a [...]
