The Frame Game

Sydney, Roger & Chike:- Hello Friends!! Another week has gone by in Grinnell College Glimmer Labs, and much has happened (to be described in detail in the forthcoming cultural blog). In particular however, the MediaPython team (that’s us) has succeeded (amongst other things) to write a working, somewhat elegant, and pretty cool picture framing plug-in … Continue reading »

STAR-SPLOSION

Hello (nonexistent) readers! A brief introduction to our group’s project: We are Sydney Ryan, Chike Abuah, and Rogelio Calderon. We are working on the MediaPython portion of Glimmer ’11. Currently at Grinnell, the 151 (introductory) Computer Science class is taught primarily in the context of image editing. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, … Continue reading »

Programming Language Applications

So I know what you’re thinking. Why Python and Scheme? Well, originally, Dr. Rebelsky chose Scheme because Grinnell uses it for the introductory Computer Science classes and because of its elegance, beauty, and support for higher-order programming.  However, Scheme is not a particularly popular programming language.  In fact, one of the reasons Scheme is used … Continue reading »