
47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie
The REPL
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal
Gerald Sussman is the creator of MathBox, a computer algebra system that powers all the physics stuff. It was really hard to use when he found it in like old coffee script on an ancient version of 3JS. He has now rehabilitated math box project with Stephen's support and made it more approachable for developers. The new toolkit lets you write reagent components that describe mathematical scenes and bundle them up so you don't have to start from scratch.
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