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10 projects to try on your Raspberry Pi using this unusual programming language
Coding club body CoderDojo has put together a guide to projects you can try out using the Wolfram Language.
If you recently bought a Raspberry Pi and are wondering what to do with it, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and CoderDojo have published 10 projects you can try using the Wolfram Language.
The Wolfram Language is different from your typical programming language, in that has a large number of built-in functions for carrying out high-level tasks, such as looking up stock prices or classifying images for facial recognition.
Language creator Stephen Wolfram has explained what he considers sets the language apart.
"It's a new kind of thing. It's what I call a knowledge-based language, it's a language where a vast amount of knowledge about how to do computations and about the world is built right into the language," he said.
"So, right within the language there are primitives for processing images or laying out networks or looking up stock prices or creating interfaces or solving optimization problems."
This broad sweep of built-in capabilities gives the language abilities that aren't found in most other languages out of the gate, for example, typing currentImage[] captures the current image from the computer's camera.
As such, the language is suited to tasks such as retrieving and working with a wide range of data, everything from written language to geographic information, as well as visualizing that data using relatively few lines of code.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Monday April 08 2019, @08:42AM (3 children)
In the Free Software community we have a name for things like this: Malware. Also sometimes called "apps". Or "Android" If you need such built-in functions, and have no choice but to use gmail, and are still, STILL! using Windoze, because, games. Malware. Malificence. Mal all around. Give me root, or give me death, preferably some CEO's death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 08 2019, @01:27PM (1 child)
"STILL! using Windoze, because, games"
It would be nice if this was the only reason. Unfortunately colleges require a lot of proprietary software that does not run on a Linux stack. More interestingly they are fostering compliance with the surveillance state by compelling their students to use gmail for school communications.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 08 2019, @05:28PM
The University I work at, requires the use of the internal e-mail address. It's a Microsoft Outlook server, but at least it's not like they're using Gmail/other 3rd party e-mail provider. Unfortunately the stock on windows is very applicable here, as they are fully bought-in to the MS ecosystem. I would guess 99% windows servers, with a sprinkling of Linux and Apple servers. Most of the Apple devices are the few professors/administrators that prefer using Apple, instead.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 08 2019, @03:41PM
How is that? I've never in my life felt even the slightest need to use gmail. I mean, there are services I don't use where I clearly see the advantage of using them, and yet decided against. And there are services where I do see problems, but still decided to use them because there's no viable alternative. And certainly in my weak moments I also have subscribed to some services before really thinking about its implications. But gmail? I don't use it, but I never decided against it because I never even considered using it.