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I’ve been taking down a few notes as I progress a bit in my reading of SICP. According to the book, programming language is not just a means of instructing a computer to perform tasks, but its true power is in its ability to serve as a framework within which we organize our ideas about […]

Saturday, my caregiver and her partner delivered a short lecture about ‘creative thinking’ for computer science students at university. Quite a fascinating day, a very nice conversation with one of the senior students there who, my caregiver’s partner said, was the very first time he had a good discussion with a “computologist” who understood what […]

Now, before I get myself horribly confused, better to get some things straight. To start off, programming languages are different from programming paradigms. A programming language can, however, have more than one programming paradigm. In learning and using the language, the programmer decides which one of or a combination of paradigms he or she might […]

“Sampling” simply means that these crochet projects are a demonstration of the various techniques in the craft of crochet.
“Improvisation” means that these crochet projects are an improvisation or innovation of existing techniques and/or patterns in the craft of crochet.
“Sampling” and “Improvisation” are independent and inter-related. They are independent in the sense that they are stand-alone […]

Introduction to Crochet and Computability
by Edward Nutmeg (February 27, 2007)
“Crochet and computability” present relationships that go beyond the “craft geometry” used to describe the modeling of planar surfaces in 3-D space. In this sense, I am interested in “crochet” as a distinct formal language and grammar system rather than crochet as an instrument for creating […]