+1 for Haskell. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Jorden M wrote:

I know I'm way over here in NY, but I have another suggestion if there are any Haskellers in WLUG.

There's a lot to learn from Haskell, especially as the world moves toward massively parallel computing. ghci and http://tryhaskell.org/ would make for a fun & interactive presentation of a very well-designed programming language.

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Another idea is open source robotics. I have a lot of experience with

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Kevin Harrington wrote: this at this point and would love to share.

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One more idea would be talking about making and using custom Java JNI.

have a library that's awesome but hate writing applications in C? JNI is a way of exposing these libs to Java. As an example I wrapped a v4l2 frame grabber and was able to get framerates 2-4 TIMES faster then OpenCV's frame grabber. Getting started with JNI is full of "gotchas" that keeps most developers away, which I think is a shame.

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Speaking of "cool" programming languages, at some point I'd love to give a presentation on "Scratch" I know, I know, it's not really a programming language... but it is a pretty good way to get kids interested in programming. Tim. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Keith Wright wrote:

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+1 for Haskell.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Jorden M wrote:

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There's a lot to learn from Haskell, especially as the world moves toward massively parallel computing. ghci and http://tryhaskell.org/ would make for a fun & interactive presentation of a very well-designed programming language.

Haskell is good, but a web site is not a presentation.

Who is volunteering to make a presentation, or at least lead a discussion?

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I saw something not to long ago about using scratch to implement logic for lego's NXT modules! On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Andy Stewart wrote:

On 03/31/2011 07:35 AM, Tim Keller wrote:

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Speaking of "cool" programming languages, at some point I'd love to give a presentation on "Scratch"

I know, I know, it's not really a programming language... but it is a pretty good way to get kids interested in programming.

Tim.

My 13 year old son is using Scratch in school to write video game programs. He is using it on Windoze in school and on Linux at home. He has a thumb drive with a FATxx format so he can use his program in both places. He really likes Scratch!

Later,

Andy

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Great! Anyone who is willing to prepare a talk on these or any other topics please email me directly and we'll work out which month(s) to fit them in. Thanks, Chuck On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:45:39AM -0400, David Glaser wrote:

Hmmm, lots of stuff to talk about. I woudl attend talks on open RC, init, and open source robotics.

-David

On 3/30/2011 12:13 PM, Kevin Harrington wrote:

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Another idea is open source robotics. I have a lot of experience with this at this point and would love to share.

One more idea would be talking about making and using custom Java JNI. have a library that's awesome but hate writing applications in C? JNI is a way of exposing these libs to Java. As an example I wrapped a v4l2 frame grabber and was able to get framerates 2-4 TIMES faster then OpenCV's frame grabber. Getting started with JNI is full of "gotchas" that keeps most developers away, which I think is a shame.

~Kevin Harrington