In this episode, we talk to Will Byrd about Scheme, Clojure and computer science education.

Our Guest, Will Byrd

• On the web
• On Github
• On Twitter

Music

Will chose "Luminous Bipeds" by The Orthotonics to start the show and "Don't You Evah" by Spoon to end the show. He also suggested watching the video "Keepon Dancing to Spoon's Don't You Evah" by Wired.

Topics

• Indiana University comp sci PhD
• miniKanren
• Dan Friedman
• Oleg Kiselyov
• David Nolen
• core.logic
• The Reasoned Schemer
• Clojure Conj
• Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant
• Logic programming
• Conj talk on miniKanren
• Quines
• LambdaJam
• Strangeloop
• Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop
• Scheme community
• Racketcon
• Alexey Radul and propagator systems
• Programming Enthusiasts Unite for Great Justice, Capitol City Brewing Company
• Google Summer of Code
• Macro systems for Clojure and Scheme
• Typed Racket
• Constraint logic programming
• Hygienic macros in Scheme
• Scheme namespaces
• Nominal logic - foundation for hygiene
• David Herman’s dissertation
• Syntax rules in Scheme
• Pattern matching
• Syntax case in Scheme
• Ryan Culpepper - syntax parse
• Dylan
• Rust
• Lynn Grogan
• Steve Wolfman - University of British Columbia
• CS Education Zoo
• Tutorial - continuation passing
• Nada Amin
• Invent with Python
• Arduino
• Sam Aaron
• Conrad Barski - Land of Lisp, Realm of Racket
• Maker movement
• Raspberry Pi
• Alan Kay - Constructivist approach to learning
• Tiddlywiki for personal notes
• Matt Might - University of Utah
• Trista Musco - artist in New Orleans
• Patreon

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Credits

Episode Cover Art:

• Michael Parenteau

Audio Production

• Russ Olsen

Producer

• Kim Foster

In this episode, we talk to Will Byrd about Scheme, Clojure and computer science education.