3 ms·
His page numbers are zero indexed. Cute. I would have loved to take his proposal for an introduction to computer science course.
by zeeboo 13y ago
His page numbers are zero indexed. Cute. I would have loved to take his proposal for an introduction to computer science course.
- chas 13y agoYou might also be interested in CMU's introductory curriculum in the same vein which is somewhat less extreme and has a particular focus on parallelism as the standard case of computing. http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/intro-curriculum-update/ http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/intro-curric...
- EmielMols 13y agoEWD831 explains zero indexing. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
- mykhamill 13y agoHowever after the list he states "And with the sixth example I have reached imperceptibly but unavoidably, the most hairy part of this talk: Educational consequences." which is incorrect as item 6 is actually the 7th example. Zero based indexing requires that the counter be updated after appending and the counter be referenced for the cardinal value of an item. (ie. item 6 is 7th in the list).