Today I accompanied my church friend to buy a computer at Sim Lim Square. On the way back to the MRT, we walk thru Bugis and he introduced and treated me to many å°?å?ƒ (xiao chi) stuff like 算盘å?(suan pan zi) and others. (my stomach is bursting! and still got handful of packets to bring home)
I later dropped by PS (Plaza Singapura) thinking I would find the Mini-toon sale and walkies talkies.
Best Denki had some talkies. But I couldnt find a mini-toon outlet there. My memory swapped the Action City with Minitoons.
What I found was Carrefour book sale. I bought 3 chinese cooking books (herbal tea egg, hor fun, milk tea/shakes), 1 Malay cooking book of Singapore and Malaysian recipes. 2 books for nerds like me: “Just A Geek” by Wil Wheaton, “Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler” by Edward G. Nilges published by A. Press.
Reason I wanted to buy the latter book was that it touched on lexical parsing. I found another book on cross-platform programing - .Net and MONO. The introduction quoted Steve Jobs saying Linux is good, Linus saying Microsoft issnt evil, and Bill Gates saying only Mac meets the standard. But I didnt buy the book. I bought a cheap dustpan and broom instead for $1.
use ur heart to cook the food and it would taste nice
Thank you for buying my book! I hope you like it and find it useful. Having been disabused of any dreams that writing will make me rich, I hope you got a good price at the Carrefours sale.
The material on lexical parsing, like that on full parsing, is based on the “genetic” approach used by my most effective teachers of computer science, Max Plager of Roosevelt University and Helmut Epp of DePaul University.
In this approach, you do NOT dump a “tool” on the students and expect them to be able to use the “tool” in a mindless fashion.
Instead, you have them do things by hand first to realize the benefits and mindful use of the tool.
Best of luck.
I have least expected the author of the book to drop by my site! The book was an eye opener to how programming languages work even though I was interested in programming 10 years ago (when i was 10 reading a book on BASIC in the library). Oh yeah, the price couldnt be better. I think I bought it for SGD$15 which maybe less than USD$10. Thanks