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Subject: Forth Taught at Schools/Universities
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Date: 3 May 90 00:45:40 GMT
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 Date: 05-01-90 (12:11)              Number: 1648 (Echo)
   To: MARK SMILEY                   Refer#: 1647
 From: ARCHIE WARNOCK                  Read: NO
 Subj: TEACHING F-PC                 Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 MS>  Which of the many ways did you suggest?  Or did you let them try to
 MS>figure it out themselves?  How much Forth had you taught them at that
 MS>point?  Did they know how to do LOOPs in Forth?

 I just let them try things.  We'd already done @ and ! when I first
 suggested, and they'd go back to it periodically when I'd point out a
 particularly dangerous construct.  Mostly they tried putting 0 into
 various memory locations.  I had one pair of guys who really liked
 trying it with the assembler.

 MS>  I'd be particularly interested in any problems you devised for your
 MS>course.

 Mostly, I worked from Jack's notes.  I was teaching a non-credit course
 here at Goddard, and so didn't really make assignments, as such.  I
 basically gave my own notes and then had them work on Jack's problems as
 a lab.

 MS>  I enjoy image processing, too, but what sort of programs could you
 MS>assign to beginning Forth students along those lines?

 It's an enormously powerful example of vectored execution.  Also
 defining matrices and images is a good example of using defining words.
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