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My name is Jason Damisch.  I am the instructor of the Forth Class. 
 
FORTH CLASS  8:00PM THURSDAYS  EXCEPT WHEN 5 MINUTES OF FAME OCCURS.
 
I will strive to write useful and interesting information here.
 
I am involved with the The Forth Interest Group or FIG for short.  It is the area Forth club, and has been around for many years. I was at the FIG meeting today ( 10-12-09 ) and was able to have a stack of Forth Books given to me which will go into the library at Noisebridge.  These books are
 
Starting Forth  - primer
 
Thinking Forth  - read after Starting Forth or Mastering Forth, Teaches good Forth Style
 
Discover Forth  - primer
 
Mastering Forth (2x) - primer
 
Forth Notebook - more advanced example code
 
Inside F83 - Explains the F83 Forth system, gives an overview of how a Forth system works inside.
 
 
Our copy of Starting Forth is falling apart.  If anybody can have this book rebound I would appreciate it.
 
An online copy of the book Starting Forth can be found here. 
 
http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html
 
 
About 15 people showed up for the FIG meeting.  The FIG website is here 
 
http://www.forth.org/
 
 
The annual Forth Day will be held at Stanford University, Saturday November 21st
 
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html
 
 
I'll be at that meeting.  Charles Moore, the inventor of Forth, should be there as well.
 
FIG holds meetings at Stanford University every third Saturday of the month.  The one in November is Forth Day, which is special.
 
 
I'll be teaching out of the book "Starting Forth" by Leo Brodie.  It is considered a classic in the Forth Community.  It is a clear and easy to understand introduction to Forth, and kind funny too.
 
long time ago, I wrote an arcade game in Forth for the Atari ST called Skampy.  It actually runs fast and is stable.  It has everything a videogame is supposed to have, speed, sound, collision detection, levels, scoring.  I will show it to anybody who is interested in seeing it. There is even an end cartoon for the people who get past the 10th level.  LOL Good Luck!
 
 
WHAT IS FORTH?
 
Forth is programming in the extensible Macro Assembler of a very simple
virtual machine, one which features two stacks, one for paramater passing, and one for holding
return addresses.  It also features Reverse Polish Notation, or RPN.
 
 
WHAT CAN FORTH DO?
 
In a nutshell, Forth can do anything that C can do, theoretically.  Both are very flexible general purpose programming languages.  These days Forth is mostly used in embedded systems which are resource constrained because Forth is very efficient. Here are some example of some applications which have been written using Forth.
 
http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html
 
 
FORTH CLASS LIBRARIES
yes it is object orientated and has inheritance.
 
There has recently been published a Forth Foundation Library. 
 
http://code.google.com/p/ffl/

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