In the Spring of 2025, I taught a course about interactive programming environments to a small group of students. For various reasons, I have to take down the official web page for that site, which includes slides that may be of interest to people who care about these things. I have therefore chosen to publish those slides on Lost Bits under a Creative Commons License.
https://lostbits.net/blog/interactive-programming-environments.html
If you are interested in such things, check it out!
#lisp #smalltalk #squeak #forth #emacs
Hypolite Petovan
•@Ethan Blanton Thank you for taking the time to republish your work elsewhere! Although I spotted an inaccuracy in the new page. The 50,000 population threshold applies to the larger community served by institutions. For universities, this means more than their immediate enrolled students, and with a population of about 1.1 million people in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, the University of Buffalo would qualify for the ADA requirement.
Now, the way they are doing the compliance rollout may not be the best. For example, it's possible to grandfather content that wasn't previously required to be accessible behind a password. Their timeline also seems pretty tight, if in the Spring of 2025 you weren't required to submit accessible material for your class, with a deadline set in April 2026.
But the ADA population requirement isn't in question in this case.