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CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

49 points by ra66it 15y ago

CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing [berkeley.edu] http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/ Give them the "big ideas" on one hand, and allow them to "peek under the hood" (do some visual programming with Scratch/BYOB/Snap) on the other. :)

p4bl0 15y ago
Relevant: Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter[1] by Matthias Felleisen and Shriram Krishnamurthi (from 2008). [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=eysm4h0t5y9nekd3du3#full http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=...
- DanielRibeiro 15y ago
  Also relevant: "All Science Is Computer Science"[1] [1] http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html
  - vph 15y ago
    Computing plays a role in all sciences, but to say all science is computer science is a little far-fetched.
bane 15y ago
Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.
- ra66it 15y ago
  we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?
  - sp332 15y ago
    Here's a good explanation: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://scene.org/ http://scene.org/ is very active with news. http://pouet.net/ http://pouet.net/ is the canonical site for searching demos, you can find most demos here. (Demos really should be run in real-time, but you can find video links if you don't have the hardware or don't want to download the program.) I'll just highlight one example that shows application to CS research: Numb Res by CNCD and Fairlight, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU and explanation https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/ https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
  - BinaryJesus 15y ago
    /\ That is exactly why some people would rather die than do CS course.
    - sp332 15y ago
      Sorry, were you replying to me or to ra66it? And what do you mean?
  - bane 15y ago
    The demoscene is at the intersection of art, music programming, hacking, online groups, tech festivals etc. It has a long history with a tremendous corpora of productions, techniques, culture, publications, etc. It's probably the biggest sub culture that nobody has ever heard of, with thousands of computing enthusiasts getting together in arenas to literally show off their code. In the demoscene, code is art. Its participants will literally consume years of their life on a production for nothing but the pleasure of it. When I saw the title of the course I immediately assumed at least half the semester was going to be on the demoscene since no computing based cultural movement I'm aware of more succinctly speaks to the course title than the demoscene.

49 points by ra66it 15y ago

p4bl0 15y ago

Relevant: Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter[1] by Matthias Felleisen and Shriram Krishnamurthi (from 2008). [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=eysm4h0t5y9nekd3du3#full http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=...

DanielRibeiro 15y ago
Also relevant: "All Science Is Computer Science"[1] [1] http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html
- vph 15y ago
  Computing plays a role in all sciences, but to say all science is computer science is a little far-fetched.

bane 15y ago

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

ra66it 15y ago
we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?
- sp332 15y ago
  Here's a good explanation: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096 http://scene.org/ http://scene.org/ is very active with news. http://pouet.net/ http://pouet.net/ is the canonical site for searching demos, you can find most demos here. (Demos really should be run in real-time, but you can find video links if you don't have the hardware or don't want to download the program.) I'll just highlight one example that shows application to CS research: Numb Res by CNCD and Fairlight, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU and explanation https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/ https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
- BinaryJesus 15y ago
  /\ That is exactly why some people would rather die than do CS course.
  - sp332 15y ago
    Sorry, were you replying to me or to ra66it? And what do you mean?
- bane 15y ago
  The demoscene is at the intersection of art, music programming, hacking, online groups, tech festivals etc. It has a long history with a tremendous corpora of productions, techniques, culture, publications, etc. It's probably the biggest sub culture that nobody has ever heard of, with thousands of computing enthusiasts getting together in arenas to literally show off their code. In the demoscene, code is art. Its participants will literally consume years of their life on a production for nothing but the pleasure of it. When I saw the title of the course I immediately assumed at least half the semester was going to be on the demoscene since no computing based cultural movement I'm aware of more succinctly speaks to the course title than the demoscene.