April 2023
Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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09:30 |
Start of Meeting |
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09:34 |
Creole Forth for Python in a Jupyter Notebook - Joseph
M. O'Connor
Joe described and demonstrated his version of Creole Forth
for Python.
- Video (29:36)
- Slides
- Creole Forth for
Python in a Jupyter notebook demo
- Play
with the Forth kernel on Jupyter notebook
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10:00 |
Elevator Simulation Challenge - Bill Ragsdale
I
have codified my version of the challenge with this design.
The Challenge: Create a visual
simulation of elevator traffic in a building:
- The building has 10 floors from G, 2 through 10.
- The elevator capacity is five passengers.
- The door open time is 1 second.
- The travel time between floors is 1 second.
- 70% of all elevator activity is to or from the Ground floor
(35% to; 35% from; 30% floor to floor.)
- Only stop at floors with down passengers / calls when going
down and conversely. (i.e. Skip up calls when traveling down.)
- Video (25:04)
- Slides
- Unlucky
floor numbers in elevators
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10:25 |
Sunday Morning at the Electronics Flea Market - Dave
Jaffe
Dave will report on the activities and merchandise offered at the
Electonics Flea Market's new venue at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA.
- Video (13:20)
- Slides
- Electronics
Flea Market
- Forth - One Laptop
per Child
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10:39 |
The Game of Bridgit - Bob Armstrong
Bob has a
programming challenge for us to take up!
"A game he described called `Bridgit' was one of the first
problems I tried to program in the Fortran. It was only when I later learned
Algol at Northwestern with recursion that I finally succeeded in this "maze
running" problem. When I learned APL, it became just four short linea or two
words. Write a program that will explore a path through a maze and see if it
reaches an exit."
- Video (25:00)
- Pencil and Paper
Games - Gale (also known as Bridgit)
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11:00 |
My First Encounter with Forth- All attending
- Video (48:03)
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11:52 |
End of Meeting |
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Coming in May |
Fiji
Language - Jack J. Woehr |
Other items:
- Forth
- Forth for MSP430
- Forth Tutorials
- Forth CPUs
- Forth Articles and Blogs
- Forth Programming Books
- Forth Jobs - submitted by Dennis Ruffer
- Other Jobs
- Green
Arrays
- Forth People
- Products in Forth
- Misc Forth Stuff
- Computers
- Components
- Software Applications
- Space Applications
- Space stuff
- Programming Languages other than Forth
- Google
Bard Can Now Help You Write Code in Over 20 Programming Languages
- Operating Systems
- Utilities
- Hardware
- Other Books and Magazines
- Manuals & Documentation
- Articles
- HP-41c, The
Forth Edition
- Applications
- Stores
- Robots
- Games
- Companies
- Lectures
- People
- The Women behind
ENIAC
- Surplus Houses
- Meetings
- Courses
- Trade Shows
- Podcasts
- Personal Computer History
- Retro Computing
- Tutorials
- Education
- Contests
- Blogs
- Other
- Guidebook -
Graphical User Interface Gallery
- ChatGPT
and Forth
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