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This is good, standard advice (if you can play it slowly...)

Once this is done and the notes are under your fingers, though, most pianists would probably say you have about 80% of the work on a piece left. The next most important thing next is to train your ears to get yourself to the next level. I highly recommend recording yourself in small ~30 second chunks and identifying what you want to change. At this point most progress will be made from listening and analysis, not from fingers on keys.

Of course, this is hard work and requires proper motivation and training, for which a good teacher has no substitute.

Yes, thanks for this. The modulation to G-flat and then the respelling to f# is absolutely stunning. I debated quite a bit about what to say here. I often dislike program notes that give a harmonic play-by-play, for exactly the reasons you say, but I was hoping to help build an intuition for what a "distant key" might sound like. If they hear it and are told it at the same time, maybe it'll register that it does sound foreign.

But you're right that it's meaningful in the context of the earlier iteration -- I'll give some thought about what can be done here. Perhaps it's another layer or for another audience.

This is in my opinion one of the greatest piano pieces ever written, but it can be difficult to engage with for the first time, since it really needs careful listening. I wanted to help people unfamiliar with the music to find a way into it, because it's so easy for it to just become background music.

Originally I wrote this to accompany my own live performances, but I think it's perhaps even more useful for helping people stay present with the music when watching online. Would love feedback!

A few things:

- Thiel really hates that college puts undergraduates in serious debt. Stanford doesn't -- take a look at its financial aid.

- When someone decides to drop out to pursue a startup or stay in school, it's often not just about the "value" they think education has. Travis Kiefer is the entrepreneur's entrepreneur: he can survive on the adrenaline of his company until it succeeds. He lives for this. I considered senior year with my best friends a once in a lifetime opportunity and didn't drop out. I live for this.

- This startup class shouldn't surprise anyone from Stanford's perspective. It has encouraged entrepreneurship forever -- there will even be an entrepreneurship themed dorm next year -- and Thiel is as good as any to teach it.

- Zuckerberg routinely appears as a guest lecturer in CS106A, the introductory CS class.

- As an aside, Stanford can sell out a football game, and the stuff about Khosla's daughters is way exaggerated (I was quoted).

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I don't know what college you're going to, but you probably won't be able to graduate without taking some sort of course in C. If for some reason your Comp Sci major leaves it out, do Stanford's CS107 course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2d712634-2b...

Seems to me like you should just be coding in a functional language. Coding in Scheme might be easier than turning C into Scheme.

I have a different perspective (though a few of the comments here have briefly touched on it). College is not for meeting like-minded peers, and it's not for learning about programming. Rather, it's for the opposite.

It's for meeting diverse people that will give you new and unexpected perspectives on life. It's for learning to work with humanities people, meeting international students, etc. It's for learning how you fit in to everything else.

I don't think it's too controversial anymore to say that most of the greatest innovations come from multidisciplinary pursuits. You won't get this if you sit at home and code.

IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and much of the Silicon Valley community looks for T-Shaped people. A light working (horizontal) knowledge of many subjects, and a deep knowledge of one subject.

You will inevitably get your depth of knowledge in coding whether or not you go to college. But will you really learn how everything fits together?

Oh, and college is FUN, even if UW is a Pac-10 rival :)

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For our goals and rationale: givingturtle.posterous.com I've gotten a great deal of positive feedback, yet I'm struggling to a) get donations, and b) get people to sign-in and vote.

I know this is a classic question of sorts, but I feel like there's something really important/interesting/innovative to be done with this site.

Actually, Stanford recently redesigned their computer science curriculum. Intro programming (CS106) does Java and C++, and then the notoriously difficult CS107 does low level C, Assembly, and some machine code