We are now working on a textbook for Grace, tentatively titled “Programming with Grace”. A draft of the book as well as information about both built-in libraries and graphics and animation libraries are also available on the site. We expect to put more information to help people learn how to program in Grace.
Author: Kim
Grace at SPLASH last week of October
The Grace team will be well represented at SPLASH in Indianapolis from October 27 to October 31. The main Grace event will be a tutorial from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Discovery Room at the conference site, the Indianapolis Hyatt Regency.
Members of the Grace team will also be involved in other presentations. Kim Bruce will be giving an invited talk on the history of the FOOL workshop at the FOOL workshop (of course) on Sunday at 1 p.m. He will also be giving a CS colloquium talk on Grace at Indiana University the Friday after SPLASH. James Noble will be taking the counterpoint position in a debate titled “Should Software Conferences Respect Software?” Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. He will also be giving a tutorial on Agile Studies of Agile Methods Thursday morning from 10:30 to noon. Andrew Black will be chairing the OOPSLA Thursday morning session on Distribution and Parallelism. While Kim is giving his talk at Indiana U on Friday, Andrew will be giving a similar talk on Grace at Cornell. Michael Homer and Tim Jones will also be attending the SPLASH meeting.
Feel free to track any of us down for a discussion of the current state of Grace.
At SIGCSE
Andrew, James, and I are at SIGCSE through Saturday, March 9. We are giving a talk on Grace on Thursday at 1:45 p.m. and would be pleased to talk to anyone interested in Grace afterward.
Kim Bruce
Pedagogical IDEs
A very important part of support for novices is a supportive interactive development environment (IDE), so we are planning on porting one or more of the existing pedagogical environments to support our language. Not surprisingly, we are most interested in open-source, platform-independent IDEs that we can adapt to Grace
We are very familiar with (and have been investigating) BlueJ and DrRacket. However, we thought it might be useful to check to see if there are others out there that people like that we should consider. While I use Eclipse in my own intro classes at the moment, we are interested here in environments specifically designed to be supportive for novice programmers, so please don’t suggest IDE’s aimed at professional programmers.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Grace at Lang.Next
Andrew Black and Kim Bruce presented an invited talk on Grace at the Lang.Next workshop at Microsoft a few weeks ago. A video of the talk is available on Channel 9 at Microsoft and the slides are here.
The next day Mads Torgersen interviewed Kim about Grace. The video is available.
