Posts by emassey0135@caneandable.social
 (DIR) Post #B4PveevAmrd2RRBs0m by emassey0135@caneandable.social
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       I am a completely blind college student studying computer science, currently at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha but transferring to the University of Nebraska Lincoln in August. My interests include computers, programming, philosophy, reading, Chess, etc. My favorite book is The Lord of the Rings but I enjoy a very wide range of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, history, philosophy, classics, science, mythology, etc. I am also an NFB member of the Omaha chapter and a NABS member. I have several programming projects on Github, including Audio Navigation, a Minecraft mod that adds Soundscape-like navigation features to the game in addition to what Minecraft Access already adds.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4YNnIrIXIg6bSy3DE by emassey0135@caneandable.social
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       @mntmn Our design of this introductory computer-science subject reflects two major concerns. First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Second, we believe that the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs, nor clever algorithms for computing particular functions efficiently, nor even the mathematical analysis of algorithms and the foundations of computing, but rather the techniques used to control the intellectual complexity of large software systems." - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Preface to The First Edition
       
 (DIR) Post #B4YOIPAR89ZT98kYiW by emassey0135@caneandable.social
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       @mntmn "Our traffic with the subject matter of this book involves us with three foci of phenomena: the human mind, collections of computer programs, and the computer. Every computer program is a model, hatched in the mind, of a real or mental process. These processes, arising from human experience and thought, are huge in number, intricate in detail, and at any time only partially understood. They are modeled to our permanent satisfaction rarely by our computer programs. Thus even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle. The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!" - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Foreword
       
 (DIR) Post #B5XOKqhBbWRHkGmzdQ by emassey0135@caneandable.social
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       @mntmn When the module is released, will the module include one of those three processors or will we have to buy the processor from Qualcom and insert it into the module?