Strange Code
Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again
Format:Paperback
Publisher:No Starch Press,US
Published:27th Sep '22
£47.99
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Explore the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric programming languages. Beginning with the history and theory of programming languages, addressing concepts like Turing machines and Turing completeness. Then a tour of three 'atypical' programming languages, real languages that are unusual and require out of the box thinking. Then, five chapters on existing esoteric languages (esolangs). Finally, the remaining chapters detail the development and use of two entirely new programming languages.
"A fascinating and thought-provoking tour through programming languages. Strange Code guides you through some mostly forgotten languages—such as Forth, SNOBOL, and CLIPS—before exploring more experimental languages—such as Piet—where your source code is an image. I particularly enjoyed Firefly, a language for the BBC micro:bit, created especially for the book."
—Sean McManus, Author of Mission Python: Code a Space Adventure Game!
"[Gives] a grounding in the basics of concepts like Turing Completeness without leaving readers to fend for themselves in a forest of of dense computer science arcana. As a reference and source for teachers, Strange Code has much to commend it."
—Terry Freedman, Teach Secondary magazine
ISBN: 9781718502406
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496 pages