Slide Show Demo

A wiki page — and a slide show too?

Just export this page as S5 (in the sidebar). Or click here to view it as a slide show now.

Second slide: A list

  • one
  • two
  • buckle my shoe

Third slide: An image

What do we think about French cheeses?

Fourth slide: some (poignant) ruby

 require 'wordlist'

 # Get evil idea and swap in code words
 print "Enter your new idea: " 
 idea = gets
 code_words.each do |real, code| 
   idea.gsub!( real, code )
 end

 # Save the jibberish to a new file
 print "File encoded.  Please enter a name for this idea: " 
 idea_name = gets.strip
 File::open( "idea-" + idea_name + ".txt", "w" ) do |f|
   f << idea
 end

Fifth slide: No, Learn You a Haskell

import System.IO
main = do
    handle <- openFile "girlfriend.txt" ReadMode
    contents <- hGetContents handle
    putStr contents
    hClose handle

Running it, we get the expected result:

$ runhaskell girlfriend.hs  
Hey! Hey! You! You!  
I don't like your girlfriend!  
No way! No way!  
I think you need a new one!

Seventh Slide … for Great Good

-- Let's use a fold to implement searching a list for a sublist.              
search :: (Eq a) => [a] -> [a] -> Bool  
search needle haystack = foldl length_test False (tails haystack)
  where length_test bool x = 
          if take needle_length x == needle then True else bool
        needle_length = length needle 

declaration :: String
declaration = "We hold these truths to be self-evident, " ++
              "that all men are created equal"

Here we get the result:

ghci> search "elf" declaration
True
ghci> search "eat" declaration
True

Eighth Slide: some math?

With some inline: a=1π, and some displayed:

s=ateπ

Doesn’t work yet in the S5 slide show, only plain webpages — need to add a link to jsMath!