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Ah, 6.001 Brings me back to the fall of 1998, and many long Thursday nights spent working on problem sets. This was before you could do the exercises on the we
by dlevine 15y ago
Ah, 6.001
Brings me back to the fall of 1998, and many long Thursday nights spent working on problem sets. This was before you could do the exercises on the web, so you had to go into an ancient lab with grayscale terminals (unless you wanted to download a special version of emacs onto your computer). If you needed assistance, you had to get on the TA's help queue, which was written on a chalkboard.
Typically I would finish my problem set and emerge just in time to see the sun rise.
- 2arrs2ells 15y agoThis is still how (many) CS problem sets were done at Harvard circa 2008, except we had whiteboards instead of chalkboards. (There was no technical reason that problem sets were done in the lab - I think it was just less depressing to be coding at 3 a.m. when you knew you weren't alone).
- tikhonj 15y agoHere at Berkeley we have the same thing. For example, I had a computer-oriented discrete math course where the professor decided a fun time to have homework due would be 8:00 AM. Naturally, you could pop by the lab next to the turn-in box at obscene times in the morning and see a bunch of people working. One benefit of this is that sometimes great discussions about completely random--although usually technical--subjects emerge as everybody is procrastinating. It really makes even the most annoying homework assignment bearable.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> Brings me back to the fall of 1998, Bah. I took it in 1983, on a TOPS-20 machine iirc with vt100's. We might as well have submitted our work in crayon. Now get off my lawn. (Sussman's book was still notes at that point. I wouldn't have guessed it would turn into the institution that it has turned into.)
- ScottBurson 15y agoBah. I took its predecessor course, 6.031, in 1977. We used an 11/45 with D(r)ECwriters. And you're bitching about a VT-100? Now get off my lawn!
- worldimperator 15y agoYou had to write it in 1s and 0s ? We only had 0s at the time !
- Drbble 15y agoMIT didn't have color monitors standard in 1998?? Or local area networking connecting the labs to the dorms?
- neolefty 15y agoThe 6.001 lab didn't have color monitors, and the software was only available in the 6.001 lab -- not even on Athena. Well, in 1988, anyway.
- mahmud 15y agoWouldn't that "special version of emacs" be Edwin? :-)