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My high school AP credits let me waive a bunch of Freshman math and science so I took philosophy, theology, etc. courses at SCU. Pirsig was assigned in one of t
by BrendanEich 6y ago
My high school AP credits let me waive a bunch of Freshman math and science so I took philosophy, theology, etc. courses at SCU. Pirsig was assigned in one of the philosophy classes.
- mjgs 6y agoPhilosophy and theology on a comp sci course is pretty wild, and I guess a good place to meet folks from other departments?
- BrendanEich 6y agoAs noted in the interview, I was a Physics major for the first three years. Also in the Honors Program, which helped get in some of the non-science classes.
- mjgs 6y agoI mentioned you in my latest javascript, technology and web development newsletter. https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-20-02-2021 https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-20... I’d be honoured to have you as a reader, no pressure though, I bet you are super busy, and you probably get a zillion requests like this.
- brailsafe 6y agoI'm still gradually working on my undergrad. Most times when I'm out of work as a developer I return and complete some of my coursework. As time goes on, I'm finding a much stronger interest in the less-testable and more human oriented classes such as those you mention, but also History, language, and cultural geography. Meanwhile the CS courses are the ones that I'm struggling to be drawn towards; particularly as some of the former desirable compabies to work at face more and more human ethical dilemmas where the computer bit isn't the complicated bit. I suppose since it was my intense motivation to design and build websites that got me in various doors without a degree, as those things become more commodified, it would be expected to look elsewhere for that inspiration, but did you ever find that true for yourself?