NaCreSoMo Afterword

01 April 2014

Another month, another “thing-a-day” challenge. I did manage to post something every day, though of varying quality. This year’s NaCreSoMo definitely felt different from last year’s—I have an impression of separate “tracks”.

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A State Machine Simulator

31 March 2014

This is it: the last day of NaCreSoMo 2014 and the finale of the CS mini-tutorial. We learned how to build a lexer. We learned what a state machine is, and how they are used to match or classify text. And we built a parser, using our lexer, that understands a language that describes state machines.

Today we’re going to go all the way: actually simulating a state machine. You can also just skip to the fun part: playing with the completed simulator.

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Tags: Computer science, Programming, NaCreSoMo 2014

NaCreSoMo "CubeQuest" & Pompeii/Daughter

30 March 2014

As the penultimate day of this year’s NaCreSoMo, I’ve made a short scavenger hunt / quiz challenge in the spirit of Dropquest. To answer the questions, you’ll have to go look at posts by other NaCreSoMo participants!

For the best experience, use a recent version of Safari or Google Chrome.

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Posted in Creativity. Tags: Puzzle, Programming, Song, Mashup, Guitar, Vienna Teng, NaCreSoMo 2014

Older Posts

  1. 2014-03-29 Pop Song Interlude
  2. 2014-03-28 "That It Be All Right"
  3. 2014-03-27 What is a Parser?
  4. 2014-03-26 10 Bad CS Jokes
  5. 2014-03-25 "Self Editing"
  6. 2014-03-24 "Death Mountain Jam"
  7. 2014-03-23 "Jizz in the Cafe" (Mashup)
  8. 2014-03-22 Seiyū
  9. 2014-03-21 Parents
  10. 2014-03-20 What are Regular Expressions?
  11. 2014-03-19 What are State Machines?
  12. 2014-03-18 Paint, Part 2
  13. 2014-03-17 Paint
  14. 2014-03-16 Thoughts on "American Revolutionary"
  15. 2014-03-15 "Guard the Right"
  16. 2014-03-14 "goto fail"
  17. 2014-03-13 More Riddle Poems
  18. 2014-03-12 "Large Coffee", Part 2
  19. 2014-03-11 Graph Coloring the Sonobe Model, Part 2
  20. 2014-03-10 Graph Coloring the Sonobe Model, Part 1
  21. 2014-03-09 Production Stills
  22. 2014-03-08 "Large Coffee"
  23. 2014-03-07 Light Reading for Up-Goer Five
  24. 2014-03-06 Red Big Ball
  25. 2014-03-05 What is a Lexer?
  26. 2014-03-04 "Come Back Home"
  27. 2014-03-03 Negative Space
  28. 2014-03-02 Traced Portraits and Remixes
  29. 2014-03-01 Twitch Plays Pokémon
  30. 2014-02-27 NaCreSoMo 2014

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