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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 25 May 1994 09:04:38 MST
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:40:02 +0100
From: Jan Peter de Ruiter <janpeter@mpi.nl>
Message-Id: <9405251440.AA26803@mpix10.mpi.kun.nl>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: icon course
Cc: janpeter@mpi.kun.nl
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Hi folks,
I've finally convinced enough members of our institute to use
Icon to justify giving an Icon course.
The goal of the course is to get them to write their own programs
in Icon, enabling them to bootstrap further if they want to do
fancy stuff. Given the nature of our work here, most programs will
be "data laundry" programs, or grazing in lexical databases and
corpora for certain linguistic entities like words or phrases.
Since many users here use(d) awk, I will put my Icon awk emulator
to good use, of course, showing the participants that they can do
awk stuff in Icon as well.
In preparing for the course, I noticed that Icon is such a coherent
language that it is hard to know where to begin. Most concepts
rely on other concepts, and you have to break the circularity
somewhere.
Now this is not the first course I ever tought, so I think I'll
manage to find a good course layout, but I'd like to know if there's
any wisdom about teaching Icon you'd like to share with me, especially
if it's about the order of presentation of the many features Icon
has.
Any comments welcome.
Greetings,
Jan
P.S. I am *extremely* sad I can't obtain an Icon T-shirt
or Coffee Mug, just because I happen to live in Europe. I'd love
to wear an Icon T-Shirt here at the institute. Could anyone
perhaps send me a postscript file of an Icon logo that I can
put on a T-shirt myself? It has to be approx. A4 size (we have
these shops here that "xerox" pictures on t-shirts).
Jan Peter de Ruiter
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen
The Netherlands