Call for Interest: Clojure (or Lisp?) Code Camp with BLM focus

[Ken Tilton]

Sounds great, I will keep it in mind if we loosen the web/mobile-native
constraint. Or maybe as a direction for campers who take off -- no need
then to fret over platform, power will matter.

Thx!


On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:54 AM Stonewall Ballard <stoney at sb.org> wrote:

> Ken,
>
> Are you familiar with Opusmodus?
> <http://opusmodus.com>
>
> It’s written in Clozure ccl, and besides providing an incredible array of
> music manipulation functions and structures, it’s got a beautiful window
> system. Mac only.
>
> Your idea of using music as a hook to learn Lisp sounds plausible. Good
> Luck!
>
>  - Stoney
> ————
> Stonewall Ballard    stoney at sb.org   http://stoney.sb.org
>
> On Monday, July 6 at 8:15:31 AM, Ken Tilton (kentilton at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> So I got to thinking about creating an approachable pathway to IT careers
> for anyone really, but in the spirit of today one focused on creating
> career opportunities for African Americans.
>
> The idea would be a code camp developed around algorithmic generation of
> music. I know nothing about music theory, except that there is prolly
> enough there to introduce most if not all fundamental programming concepts.
>
> For those campers that accidentally get hooked on programming itself,
> which is how many of us ended up in IT careers, away they go!
>
> The idea is to:
>
>    - use music as the hook;
>    - defer as long as possible the annoying things about programming (I
>    am looking at you, node.js);
>    - part of that ^^^ will be using a powerful language with the
>    parentheses in the right place, prolly ClojureScript since that could run
>    where JS runs;
>    - keep programming as the focus, as tempting as the music will be.
>    Sonic Pi comes with all sorts of built-in sound capabilities, but we want
>    to *develop* those in the code camp;
>    - tailor the program to specific musical genres, to maximize the
>    musical hook.
>
> I am dropping this here since I know many Common Lispers have a strong
> musical bent. My questions are:
>
>    - Could we use CL instead? I do think this almost has to be a web app,
>    perhaps even mobile. Hmmm, we *could* CL-ify CLJS with
>    sufficent clever macrology.
>    - What do you think? Can a solid programming fundamentals course be
>    expressed in music theory? Hint: HTTP is not a programming fundamental.
>    - If there is any interest, what would be a good place for an ongoing
>    discussion? Google groups?
>
> Ideas, comments, suggestions all welcome.
>
> -hk
>
>

-- 
Kenneth Tilton
http://tiltontec.com/
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