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Its objective says, "Teach students the virtues of metadata. More specifically, they learn how to formally represent the requirements of a Web service and then build a computer program to generate the computer programs that implement that service."
This is one of the problem sets potential ArsDigita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita) recruits were required to solve during the first bubble.
UPDATE: Philip explains automatic code generation here (http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/metadata), and the "SQL for Web Nerds" book he references in the pset has been moved to (http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/).
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Its objective says, "Teach students the virtues of metadata. More specifically, they learn how to formally represent the requirements of a Web service and then build a computer program to generate the computer programs that implement that service."
This is one of the problem sets potential ArsDigita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita) recruits were required to solve during the first bubble.
UPDATE: Philip explains automatic code generation here (http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/metadata), and the "SQL for Web Nerds" book he references in the pset has been moved to (http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/).