Re: A small programming challenge

Thanks Dimitre for an enlightening email.. I wish best
for your family ;)

Regards,
Mukul

--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 6/22/05, Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dimitre,
> >  I am keen to solve this problem. But I have a
> doubt
> > .. Do you have a algorithm for this(If yes, please
> > share it), which I'll implement with XSLT 2.0 ? Or
> we
> > have to also invent a algorithm for this..
> 
> I have an algorithm and an XSLT 2.0 solution that
> runs successfully
> with an available XSLT 2.0 processor and I will make
> this solution
> available, but I don't want to spoil the fun for
> anyone, who'd accept
> the challenge to find their own.
> 
> This all started a few weeks ago when my 12-year
> daughter asked me if
> I can write a program that will print all Fibonacci
> numbers less than
> 1000000 (1 million).
> 
> I quickly wrote something in XSLT and it was a great
> fun to change
> some parameters of the problem and see
> instantaneously the new result.
> She was very curious how the program works and I had
> to explain
> everything, including what is a sequence and what
> recursion is ...
> 
> Surprisingly, all these concepts are not difficult
> to understand for a
> 12-year-old.
> 
> I can only envy such a girl or a boy, starting their
> first programming
> experience with a functional language at this age.
> 
> I have yet to think how we can best encourage
> interest towards
> functional programming at an early age -- probably
> Jeni or David will
> write a nice book for their kids in the next few
> years and make it
> available to other kids?
> 
> This is the best we can do for our children.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dimitre.
> 
> 



		
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