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Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_

by lab11 4y ago

Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB... especially the section on streams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CABEA24090&index=11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB...) It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.

ipnon 4y ago
“It’s not a science and it has nothing to do with computers.” Talk about starting CS101 with a bang!
- nishs 4y ago
  That's like a more fun-sounding version of Dijkstra's "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
JDEW 4y ago
Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.
- apgwoz 4y ago
  > Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all. And what if the OP knew nothing of maths before the course? A mistake it was, but I think you’re overindexing on (potentially) a brain fart.
- I-love-india 4y ago
  Yeah but pi degrees of my outlook into the universe gets to be very very large over large distances...
lll-o-lll 4y ago
Yeah this one is so much fun. I feel like I really grew as a programmer from this course. Scheme is the perfect teaching language because each concept being taught can be demonstrated in its pure form so you really “get it”. I had been a professional developer for 10 years or so when I went through this course, and it profoundly changed how I thought about code.
silent_cal 4y ago
Awesome, thanks for sharing
asmr 4y ago
in my opinion as far as learning programming is involved Brian Harvey's SICP lectures are superior
graymatters 4y ago
Surely you mean pi radians and not pi degrees.

by lab11 4y ago

ipnon 4y ago

“It’s not a science and it has nothing to do with computers.” Talk about starting CS101 with a bang!

nishs 4y ago
That's like a more fun-sounding version of Dijkstra's "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

JDEW 4y ago

Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

apgwoz 4y ago
> Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all. And what if the OP knew nothing of maths before the course? A mistake it was, but I think you’re overindexing on (potentially) a brain fart.
I-love-india 4y ago
Yeah but pi degrees of my outlook into the universe gets to be very very large over large distances...

lll-o-lll 4y ago

Yeah this one is so much fun. I feel like I really grew as a programmer from this course. Scheme is the perfect teaching language because each concept being taught can be demonstrated in its pure form so you really “get it”. I had been a professional developer for 10 years or so when I went through this course, and it profoundly changed how I thought about code.

silent_cal 4y ago

Awesome, thanks for sharing

asmr 4y ago

in my opinion as far as learning programming is involved Brian Harvey's SICP lectures are superior

graymatters 4y ago

Surely you mean pi radians and not pi degrees.