# Preface

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This mostly </span>**live-code**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> computational Wiki book addresses two audiences:</span>

1. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">STEM high school students to undergraduate college level students </span>
2. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Programmers' and computer scientists' </span>**learning habitat**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> to freely experiment with new concepts in programming languages</span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On one hand the book is regimented for the absolute newbies with no programming experience, and on the other hand pushes the programmers off the cliff of commercial programming languages for better experiences. </span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I am borrowing components from the formal language of the Alfred Tarski on modern mathematical logic. I did that to make my language more consistent with a concise paradigm + a terrific economy of the words, while staying away from the fluffy contemporary foo-foo dust publications. </span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dara O Shayda </span>

Chief of Software

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Computational Classnotes </span>

Republic of Ireland, May 8th 2026

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