Mimir:Spring 2014 Meeting Minutes


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Minutes for Week Ending on 2/18/2014
Minutes by Eric Hutchins

Everyone is here – First Meeting

Beginning: 8:30pm to 8:40pm

We are looking over Gabriel’s first draft of how we should lay out our outline of the textbook.

Came to a decision where we want the paradigm to be the main focus of each chapter, and then to

have the language we are learning in class to be included in the chapter as the focus language. Will also

mention the other languages closest associated with that paradigms

Talked about having one chapter as a introduction to paradigms then each one after is a paradigm for

itself.

Introduction could be just a brief chapter about what programming languages are, the qualities of such,

and also the paradigms.

Decision was to have two introduction chapters. May change that later once we get more information

in.

Next topic: 8:40pm – 8:45pm

How we are approaching the content of each chapter. We could either do it by ourselves for our

sections that were recorded completely, or we can work more fluidly with each other as things happen

and tweak the sections as we go.

Decided that each one of us will focus on our individual sections for now.

Next Topic: 8:45pm – 8:54pm

When can we meet with one another?

Decided to keep meeting here at the college at 8:30pm after classes for twenty minutes to an hour or

more depending on what we are working on. We can order pizzas or something if we need to, but we

can stay here late.

We can also keep in touch via the email chain we have set up.

Everyone agrees.

Next Topic: 8:55pm – 8:58pm

Outline Structure

Idea that we should have exercises at the end of each chapter based on the way that paradigm’s

language works. We could use examples from the labs if they fit. General consensus is that it sounds like a good idea.

Next Topic: 8:58pm – 9:01pm

If we can’t use Google Docs what can we use?

We can use Gabriel’s personal server to work off of a document. Also discussed that we should work in

a word document and copy and paste it onto the wiki page so that we can deal with how slow the wiki is

but also so we can have a backup copy in case the wiki fails.

'Next Topic: 9:01pm – 9:10pm '''

More outline structure discussion. We can set it up any way we want.

We will have a new copy by Friday and then discuss it further online.

We can edit the writing styles and make them match up later on. For now we need the content of the

book.

Next Topic: 9:10pm – 9:25pm

Jonas brought us books to look at for reference. More about outlines.

Spoke about what are the next steps. Need more material to do the chapters, but we should also do

some work ahead of time for things such as introductory paragraphs, questions in the chapters, and

exercises at the end.

Important question to ask “How do we talk about languages?” – Jonas recommends talking about this in

the introductory chapter.

Talked about creating a template for each chapter so all of our chapters look similar even if the writing

styles are different.

Explaining more about what each language is, more than just what their paradigm is.

Why talk about functional and imperative? Because we want to contrast between the newer stuff and

the older, and how it is mixed together.

End of Meeting – Will meet again next week at the same time.

Minutes for Week Ending on 2/25/2014
Minutes by Eric Hutchins

Those of us there decided it would be best to skip the meeting this week due to the homework. We will meet next week as usual after class.

Minutes for Week Ending on 3/04/2014
Minutes by Sergiu Gabriel Mihu

We discussed about issues and solutions regarding Mimir project a couple of time this week, at least Gabriel, Erol and Daniel. We met at school before classes and we exchanged information regarding resources.

All of us met after class, the regular weekly meeting.

Chapter list has been sent and needs to be implemented.

Book content: it would be nice to have in the introduction the programming waves (machine code, assembly...). Check wikipedia.org/wiki/programming_language_generations

Prolog: let's skip this for now, and if we have time until the end we can go over it.

Added the following chapters:
 * Variables: type/scope/implementation
 * Programming language generations

We will follow the basic chapter structure.

There's no rule about the weekly logs. Let's do this:
 * Notes section is filled with what the owner has done
 * Comments - our own comments
 * Feedback - other's comments on our work - format: "signature" + "comment"

Next week goal:
 * each of us should fill in an incipient content into their assigned chapter of the book.

Communication will continue face to face, by email and the Google group.

Issues/risks: we are not worried at this point, it's a team effort, and by the end of the semester we should be ok.