On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Sateesh Kumar <sateeshpy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Slightly OT, Brown university is offering their course "Introduction > to Programming Languages" [1] available > for free on the Web. > > Interestingly second and third months of the course would cover Python > in detail. > >From the course outline: [2] > > "In the first month of the course, we will go through the semantics > engineering process in the > small: you will be given an illustrative little language built by us, > whose meaning you must completely decipher. > (We use the phrase “decipher” intentionally: most real-world languages > are under- or poorly specified, > so almost all of them at least slightly resemble hieroglyphics.) In > the remaining two months, you will repeat > this exercise in the large: namely, for Python. By the end of the > semester, then, a completely successful student will > have an authoritative knowledge of Python and will have created a > full, independent implementation of it. > Naturally, we don't expect very many students to be completely successful." > > > reg, > sateesh > > 1. http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/OnLine/ > 2. http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/
Anybody taking course? I'm planning to take this and solve all quizzes, minor project and major project. If there is enough interest, we can try to have a BoF session at PyCon India 2012. Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
