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Still one of my favorite lectures I've watched online of all time. Highly recommend the book as well for those that haven't read it.
by dcherman 10y ago
Still one of my favorite lectures I've watched online of all time. Highly recommend the book as well for those that haven't read it.
- Red_Tarsius 10y agoI found The Last Lecture while looking for a motivational book to gift my brother. Do you think a 14yo could appreciate Randy's writings? I'd like to instill him with a sense of perseverance, responsibility and long-term vision.
- dcherman 10y agoAbsolutely! I don't want to spoil it for others that may not have seen or read it yet, but you know the ending and why he wrote it. While he may not fully understand everything (the lessons, not the words), this is the kind of book that I still go back and read every couple of years and still try to pick up something new each time. I'm sure he can pick up things that are relevant to him today and still find new lessons for years to come.
- z1mm32m4n 10y agoI read this book after my mom suggested it to me in 8th grade (14 years old!) and it was the reason I ended up setting my sights on CMU for college. I know that a 14yo could appreciate it.
- pyromine 10y agoSimiliar to other posters, I read this book in middle school and found it a great inspiration then. I actually at the time got really big in to Alice[1] a gui based programming environment Pausch pioneered and it led to a lot of my earlier computing experiences. I'd highly recommend the book for any young teen as it paints an incredibly optimistic picture of the world, which is something to be said when you consider Pausch had terminal cancer. In all honesty to this day Pausch remains one of my greatest inspirations. [1]: http://www.alice.org/index.php http://www.alice.org/index.php