Teaching and learning resources • Re: Advent of Code 2024

Considering that this is run on "banana" and from Emacs, and that the result is 700+ trillion, my hat is off to Chez Scheme.

Code:

> (time2 (lambda () (day19 "input.txt")))304705756472327497#<time-duration 1.483221209>

Once upon a time I was a teaching assistant at Indiana University and we used a homegrown gradebook program written in Chez Scheme. Since then my opinion of Scheme has improved much more than I had ever thought possible.

I'm a sorry to admit that I still can't understand Scheme very well. When

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC

maybe he was correct.

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:45 am

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