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This brings back fond memories of my 1 year at UC Berkeley back in 2005-2006 and getting my start learning about Computer Science fundamentals with Professor Ha

by orware 12y ago

This brings back fond memories of my 1 year at UC Berkeley back in 2005-2006 and getting my start learning about Computer Science fundamentals with Professor Harvey and CS61A. Afterwards I always told myself I'd jump in at some point and play around with Logo (since the books were freely available on his page since forever it seems) but I had forgotten about those thoughts until seeing this post right now. To Professor Harvey :-)!

keithpeter 12y ago
"This project really excites me — sneaking the ideas of Scheme into the visual metaphor of Scratch!" From http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ Scratch section. What was he like in person? I've used Logo quite a lot in teaching maths and I've always wondered how bh ran his classes.
- orware 12y ago
  Overall, I would say folks may not have appreciated him as much in those lectures as you might expect (if you've watched the online versions of them, they were basically the same as those...unfortunately we probably weren't the most active class participants either with everything else going on in each student's day-to-day life). I actually learned more about his personality by reading Simply Scheme for the precursor class to CS61A (CS3) since I was a complete noob to programming at the time...his book was really fun to read though and I learned a lot that semester. I think I ended up reading a couple of Brian's essays on his UCB page as well, which helped me gain some additional appreciation for his background. A few years later I picked up a copy of the book Hackers (by Steven Levy) and it was there (during the section about the early days of the MIT Hackers) that I saw his name mentioned and I thought it was so cool that I had had him as an instructor :-).
- archagon 12y ago
  You used to be able to find the "greatest hits" of his lectures (as well as the ones from 61B and C) at http://wla.berkeley.edu http://wla.berkeley.edu. Unfortunately, it looks like the site is down right now... or forever? (The lectures were in RealPlayer format, so maybe it's for the best.)
  - orware 12y ago
    I think they moved off of the older Realplayer-based sites and onto Youtube...they pretty much have every version of CS61A online from the past few years...here's a playlist of one of the last ones taught by Professor Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28HAzKy0N8&list=PL3E89002AA9B9879E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28HAzKy0N8&list=PL3E89002AA...
blt 12y ago
I loved his CS 61A online lectures. Glad they are available to the world.
ulfw 12y ago
To Professor Harvey! I had him back in 1997 in CS61A. Will never forget that class. It was way oversubscribed due to some administrative issue. So he had the whole class on Day 1 take a test: Write a app in any language you know to solve the Tower of Hanoi (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shidi/cs61a/wiki/Towers_of_Hanoi http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shidi/cs61a/wiki/Towers_of_Hano...). Whoever passed it was in the class. It was damn intimidating. My first ever lecture in my first ever class at Berkeley, first time at a university and first time in America. I'm still a little proud I could do it back then.

by orware 12y ago

keithpeter 12y ago

"This project really excites me — sneaking the ideas of Scheme into the visual metaphor of Scratch!" From http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ Scratch section. What was he like in person? I've used Logo quite a lot in teaching maths and I've always wondered how bh ran his classes.

orware 12y ago
Overall, I would say folks may not have appreciated him as much in those lectures as you might expect (if you've watched the online versions of them, they were basically the same as those...unfortunately we probably weren't the most active class participants either with everything else going on in each student's day-to-day life). I actually learned more about his personality by reading Simply Scheme for the precursor class to CS61A (CS3) since I was a complete noob to programming at the time...his book was really fun to read though and I learned a lot that semester. I think I ended up reading a couple of Brian's essays on his UCB page as well, which helped me gain some additional appreciation for his background. A few years later I picked up a copy of the book Hackers (by Steven Levy) and it was there (during the section about the early days of the MIT Hackers) that I saw his name mentioned and I thought it was so cool that I had had him as an instructor :-).
archagon 12y ago
You used to be able to find the "greatest hits" of his lectures (as well as the ones from 61B and C) at http://wla.berkeley.edu http://wla.berkeley.edu. Unfortunately, it looks like the site is down right now... or forever? (The lectures were in RealPlayer format, so maybe it's for the best.)
- orware 12y ago
  I think they moved off of the older Realplayer-based sites and onto Youtube...they pretty much have every version of CS61A online from the past few years...here's a playlist of one of the last ones taught by Professor Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28HAzKy0N8&list=PL3E89002AA9B9879E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28HAzKy0N8&list=PL3E89002AA...

blt 12y ago

I loved his CS 61A online lectures. Glad they are available to the world.

ulfw 12y ago

To Professor Harvey! I had him back in 1997 in CS61A. Will never forget that class. It was way oversubscribed due to some administrative issue. So he had the whole class on Day 1 take a test: Write a app in any language you know to solve the Tower of Hanoi (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shidi/cs61a/wiki/Towers_of_Hanoi http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shidi/cs61a/wiki/Towers_of_Hano...). Whoever passed it was in the class. It was damn intimidating. My first ever lecture in my first ever class at Berkeley, first time at a university and first time in America. I'm still a little proud I could do it back then.