In the early days of Linux there was a period where they fastest way to figure out what was going on was to grab the source and study it. Contrast that with the current world of Stack Exchange and Google. There’s enough information out there that I suspect many people may never learn to do careful analysis. They can get by on poke and prod, and the industry drivers for intellectual property reinforces that behavior. Not that anyone really is “taught” to program -- at least that is worth hiring -- but it is sad to see computer science diluted in this way. I’ve helped someone through the current Harvard CS-50 curriculum and, no, SICP it ain’t.
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 1:30 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" I think it's pretty funny. The singularity happened before the millennium, when our libraries outgrew our ability to thoroughly test or understand them. In mere decades the artificial universe, starting from nothing, had become as mysterious as reality. -- rec -- On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com<mailto:g...@naturesvisualarts.com>> wrote: In the words of the (in)famous Ross Perot, "Now, that's just sad." On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206&imm_mid=0e370a&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20160507 -- ⛧ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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