Hi Andrea -- I too need to give a talk on Factor here in the Philadelphia area in a couple of months. I am not the "old hand" that you are looking for, but it occurred to me that it might be valuable for us to collaborate. While we definitely would want to get some of the more seasoned Factorers to help validate anything that we put together, it occurred to me that we might be able to put our relative newbie-ness to good advantage in that we can focus on what a beginner would need to know.
Despite the fact that I've been interested in Factor for a number of years, I haven't actually done that much programming with it, as I have been immersed in my own Forth-derived platform. But I always look at things like a presentation as an opportunity to go up the learning curve in a relatively focused way. If you would be interested in collaborating, drop me a message at mclag...@hotmail.com. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:20 PM, "Andrea Ferretti" <ferrettiand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I will be giving an introductory talk about Factor at the LambdaCon in > Bologna (Italy) > > http://www.lambdacon.org/ > > Of course, I a not a Factor expert in any way, but I will make it > clear and try to show the potentialities of Factor. I was thinking of > following more or less parts of my tutorial > > http://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/ > > with some variations - a nice one would be the implementation of K-means here > > https://github.com/andreaferretti/kmeans/blob/master/factor/kmeans/kmeans.factor > > that I find quite neat :-) > > I was also planning to let people download Factor and follow > interactively, which should be quite possible since Factor is rather > succinct. > > I would like to gather some advice from more experienced factorers: > what topics to choose? Do you have any experience in presenting Factor > to a general audience? Any things that may appeal and capture the > audience attention? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
