One more link: in 2008 Slava Pestov (the creator of Factor) gave a talk at
Google about Factor (as it existed back then), it's interesting and a good
introduction to some of Factor's interesting and somewhat advanced features.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
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On January 19, 2018 4:58 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also look through this great Factor Tutorial page:
>
> https://andreaferretti.github.io/factor-tutorial/
>
> And you might find this neat presentation about Factor useful that was put
> together recently:
>
> https://github.com/viswans83/stack-based-languages-presentation
>
> And I have a lot of random code and examples on my blog where I was also
> trying to learn and write about various things:
>
> http://re-factor.blogspot.com
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Andrew McDowell <andyji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, I’ve worked through Your First Program and gotten exposure to a few
>> concepts (and had fun!). It would be nice if there were a series of such
>> hands on tutorials leading me through further steps in my programming
>> education and factor education. I don’t suppose that is the case though. I
>> will continue as best I can, stumbling and experimenting, and I”ll make
>> progress, but is there anything available anywhere that provides a more
>> structured path?
>> Just an example to show that despite the First Program tutorial I am still
>> fundamentally ignorant:
>> After playing with my newly built ‘palindrome?’ program, I began getting
>> call stack overflow errors. Ok, but I am flat-footed at this point. What’s
>> the call stack? What an overflow? Is my code causing the overflow? How, when
>> it was just working a moment since and suddenly produced overflow errors?
>> I’m sure the answer is simple and obvious to someone with just a little more
>> experience, but what it shows me is that I’m really stumbling in the dark
>> from this point. There’s obviously so much more of a very fundamental nature
>> that I need to grasp before I even think about more intermediate concepts,
>> let alone advanced. Yet I could not even find an explanation of the stack
>> overflow error and how to fix what caused it. I’ll mess around and search
>> around and figure it out eventually, but there must be a more systematic way.
>> How do I proceed from here in learning factor? And programming?
>>
>> Andy
>>
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