For the past three seasons, Spring for Music, a Maytime tournament of North American orchestras at Carnegie Hall, has been celebrating the art of programming: in place of the usual shuffle of celebrity soloists and warhorses, audiences have been treated to an unpredictable cavalcade of novelties and curiosities.
By Alex Ross For the past three seasons, Spring for Music, a Maytime tournament of North American orchestras at Carnegie Hall, has been celebrating the art of programming: in place of the usual shuffle of celebrity soloists and warhorses, audiences have been treated to an unpredictable cavalcade of novelties and curiosities.
MIAMI — The art of program building in ballet, often supposed to be a thing of the past, is not dead.
But one lucky flock of BBC Micros is getting another lease of life by helping to educate students in the art of rigorous programming.
Software system design and development is by and large more complex than the programming phase of it, which was perceived as an art by Donald Knuth in his classic book "The Art of Computer Programming" [9].
A pioneer in computer science, he took time out during the 1970s from writing his highly acclaimed multivolume The Art of Computer Programming in order to develop TeX, a document-preparation system.
There were times during Tuesday night's fabulously entertaining New York Philharmonic concert at Avery Fisher Hall when I found myself debating the pros and cons of the conceit behind "Hitchcock!," the first of two programs in "The Art of the Score: Film Week at the Philharmonic".
MCWAR, the smallest of the war colleges, was founded in 1990 as the art of war studies program at Quantico, Virginia.
In the art conservation program of the University of Delaware, students gather as much forensic evidence as they can to peel back the layers of museum masterpieces, then set to work replicating their artists' gestures, producing historically accurate reconstructions.
It might not always to be successful, but there is power in being able to rapidly iterate and discard things that don't work — and as these APIs grow more sophisticated it raises the bar at hackathons and the state of the art in programming.
