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Interview with Hal Abelson on Code Quarterly
- ernestipark 15y agoAwesome interview that sheds a lot of light on how Abelson thinks programming should be taught. I really wish I could have taken 6.001 instead of 6.01 though as a CS student. I had a bit of an a-ha moment reading about the abstractions Abelson talked about in 6.01, but when I was taking the course, it went straight over my head.
- bobbles 15y agoI dont know if its just my setup of FireFox 4 but this is really difficult to read
- spooneybarger 15y agoit is really difficult to read. supposedly a redesign of the site it coming plus possibility for pdf and epub which some might appreciate. in the meantime, i'd suggest using something like readability.
- ipince 15y agowe took my ethics and law course, and then dumbed it down so we could teach it at Harvard
- splittist 15y agoIf every issue of CQ has an interview of this calibre and quality it's going to be THE essential subscription for the field.
- signa11 15y agobeautiful: ... I’ve decided that from now on, I should be measuring the quality of my life by the ratio of the amount of time spent programming to the amount of time sitting in meetings.
- zaph0d 15y agoApart from the great content, I love the typography on the pages. Simple yet elegant. Kudos!
- chalst 15y agoOh, great to see that Code Quarterly is coming along. Hal Abelson: My math PhD was in algebraic topology, which had nothing to do with computers. Then I got interested, through thinking about topology, in the relations with distributed computing and that eventually formed a bridge into doing something in computing. For those wanting to find out a little more about these connections, Herlihy & Rajsbaum, 2000, An Overview of Synchronous Message-Passing and Topology, is a really great place to start. http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/mph/HerlihyR96/sv.pdf http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/mph/HerlihyR96/sv.pdf