To study programming is to do
programming. Program is an interesting artifact that can be very
fascinating. The best way to learn is to enjoy it by doing
it. This book will introduce you to a journey of creating a
computer language. The story tells an evolution of a computer
language, its internal working mechanism and the ideas behind it. The
medium of this journey is a computer language and its accompany source
code and executable code, called Som language. All the materials
can be found at:
It requires skill which is acquired
through a lot of practice. Its foundation lays in
mathematics. The study of programs as an object in itself is
interesting and useful. By such study we can understand more
thoroughly the relationship between a program and the result we want it
to accomplish. It is my intension in this short writing to
initiate you towards the study of programs. Hopefully, to give
you some insight into programming but my higher hope is to make you
appreciate programs as beautiful man-made objects.
P. Chongstitvatana
Chulalongkorn University, 2010
