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"the professor covered multiple blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism."
Walter Lewin did a lot more than just that.
Just another way for the ETS to sandwich more money.
This is an interesting exchange between Mark Guzdial and Alan Kay: http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKVUNBWIDAS9YQ
The focal point of the argument seems to be whether CS "education" and "vocational training" should be separated.
P.S. Nice to see another UIUC student. I've been accepted there and would possibly end up enrolling unless I get into some long shot universities. How is the scene there?
I feel Expose is quite counter-productive.
The golden rule any developer must know: never use the mouse. Multiple desktops and Quicksilver (instead of the dock, which is quite distracting) are far more efficient.
Yes, they are:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/speakers http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/
I remember seeing videos of Yegge's and Munroe's talks. Yegge's is worth watching.
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. e.g. General relativity has a lot of mathematics backing it up.
Law: a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. e.g F = ma. We don't know why it's true, it just is some sort of an axiom.
I'm a high school senior student who has applied to several public universities; mainly a subset of Berkeley, UIUC, UWash, Michigan, UT Austin, GATech, and Purdue.
I'm wondering if you are at one of these these places (or a university of a similar reputation.) Do you think attending a private university such as Chicago or CMU is a better option?
The Hazel Tree: http://thehazeltree.org/
What if working hard on what I like could potentially get me into debt? Or what if I like to impress people?
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pgYeah, but we really ought to stop using extraneous punctuation.
A big cultural problem also amplifies this: a majority of the middle and upper class families want their children to become engineers.
Our country does not need any more corporate drones, we need better politicians.
It's actually the education system that is largely responsible for the "extremely corrupted political system", among other issues.
Windows 7
No.
Wow, that reporter sure is attractive.
The Cookbook (Amazon it, I'm too sleepy to link) contains examples of idiomatic code that you should use.
The BitTorrent code looked awful the last time I saw it; complete with 20 arguments for one function.
Not all of us went to MIT.
Mark Cuban on how to become an innumerate tool: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/35949.html?thread=516461.
...or google RMS!
These two books look interesting, too: http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/ http://www.spinellis.gr/codequality/
As for your suggestion on reading Understanding the Linux Kernel, is it readable even if I haven't taken a course on Operating Systems or something equivalent?
Then you've got other problems.
True. And fairly polished, too.
However, Charles Leiserson is a pedantic douche.
Are you referring to Chinese immigrants? Because if China is anything like India, kids would actually be discouraged to play the piano, as it would prove to be a "distraction from their studies."
I feel only a small fraction of them are actually smart... the entire K-12 education in India is little more that an exercise in rote memorization. College education isn't that great either, even in the elite universities.
But can it run Crysis?
Not as good as "Larry Ellison's speech" at Yale:
These pointless "women in computer science" articles really make my trigger finger itchy.