The first talk has a little Racket, but is mostly about John McCarthy, lisp, and Algol60.
NOTE: If anyone wants to preprocess the audio, or sync up the audio and slides go ahead and fork this repo! It is in the public domain. I have 4-ch flac audio available (but it is big).
Video was taken. I don't know the status of that. I wanted to get the raw audio up today in memory of John McCarthy! I previewed the talk ogg+pdf and it sounds pretty good on headphones (I noticed a few mistakes, but oh well!), could use some compression, downmix to mono, and trimming.
Talk starts about 7-8min in.
Slides, audio, and source files for my pesentation:
racket-part1.pdf
racket-part1-lisp-algol60.ogg
To view this talk in slideshow from the Racket distribution:
presentations$ cd racket-part1/
presentations/racket-part1$ slideshow talk.rkt
Here was the promo:
This is VTFun's first Racket or Scheme talk, but instead of a tutorial, I'm planning a tour of a few key ideas from the 1950s to the present that every programmer should grok, and no language designer should ignore. I hope that each slide will be easy to follow, seem obvious in retrospect, and maybe make you a better programmer.
About the Presenter: Anthony Carrico earned a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, primarily in signal processing and computer architecture. He tried to learn to code at an AI company heated with Lisp and Unix machines. He went on to program Japanese music video games. His wife teaches at St. Mike's and he stays home with the kids.