Preface

This mostly live-code computational Wiki book addresses two audiences:

1. STEM high school students to undergraduate college level students
2. Programmers' or computer scientists' learning habitat to freely experiment with new concepts in programming languages

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.

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.

Dara O Shayda

Chief of Software

Computational Classnotes

Republic of Ireland, May 8th 2026

foo-foo dust : A reference to a (non-existent) power or mysterious ingredient or hidden effort that creates desirable results. Results achieved, as if by magic, perhaps by slight-of-hand.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=foo+foo+dust