
Strange Code
Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again
Ronald T. Kneusel(Author)
No Starch Press
Published on 27. September 2022
496 pages
978-1-7185-0241-3 (ISBN)
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Strengthen your overall coding skills by exploring the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric languages (esolangs).
Strange Code starts with a dive into the underlying history of programming, covering the early computer-science concepts, like Turing machines and Turing completeness, that led to the languages we use today. It then explores the realm of "atypical" programming languages, introducing you to the out-of-the-box thinking that comes from these unusual approaches to coding.
Later chapters address the even more unusual esolangs, nearly all of which are like nothing you've ever seen. Finally, author Ron Kneusel helps you develop and use two entirely new programming languages. You may not apply these languages in your day job, but this one-of-a-kind book will motivate you to think differently about what it means to express thought through code, while discovering the far-flung boundaries of programming.
You'll learn:
- How to program with pictures using Piet
- How to write two-dimensional programs in Befunge
- How to implement machine-learning algorithms using the text pattern matching language SNOBOL
- >-[>+>>]>[[-<+>]+>+>>]<<<<<]
- How to design and create two original programming languages
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
22,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-7185-0241-3 (9781718502413)
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09/2022
No Starch Press
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A programming language enthusiast, Ronald T. Kneusel's experience with programming languages began circa 1980 when he first encountered an Apple II computer. Decades later, he completed a PhD in machine learning from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and now works in the industry developing deep learning systems. He is the author of Practical Deep Learning: A Python-Based Introduction (No Starch Press), Math for Deep Learning (No Starch Press), Numbers and Computers (Springer), and Random Numbers and Computers (Springer).
Content
Forward
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: On Programming Languages
Chapter 1: A Cherry-Picked Review of Programming Languages
Chapter 2: The Essentials of Programming Languages
Chapter 3: Turing Machines and Turing Completeness
Part II: Atypical Programming Languages
Chapter 4: Forth
Chapter 5: SNOBOL
Chapter 6: CLIPS
Part III: Esoteric Programming Languages
Chapter 7: The ABCs of ABCs
Chapter 8: FRACTRAN
Chapter 9: Piet
Chapter 10: Brainfuck
Chapter 11: Befunge
Part IV: Homegrown Esolangs
Chapter 12: Filska
Chapter 13: Using Filska
Chapter 14: Firefly
Chapter 15: Using Firefly
Chapter 16: Going Further
Appendix A: Genetic Programming with Firefly
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: On Programming Languages
Chapter 1: A Cherry-Picked Review of Programming Languages
Chapter 2: The Essentials of Programming Languages
Chapter 3: Turing Machines and Turing Completeness
Part II: Atypical Programming Languages
Chapter 4: Forth
Chapter 5: SNOBOL
Chapter 6: CLIPS
Part III: Esoteric Programming Languages
Chapter 7: The ABCs of ABCs
Chapter 8: FRACTRAN
Chapter 9: Piet
Chapter 10: Brainfuck
Chapter 11: Befunge
Part IV: Homegrown Esolangs
Chapter 12: Filska
Chapter 13: Using Filska
Chapter 14: Firefly
Chapter 15: Using Firefly
Chapter 16: Going Further
Appendix A: Genetic Programming with Firefly
Index
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