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I've had the opportunity to speak with Gerry on a couple occasions. He's an incredibly nice and brilliant man. He pulled a postdoc into his office and they talked to me for about a…

This is a nitpick but I think the pledge should read "No first use of software patents against companies with fewer than 25 people," since people are countable: http://englishplus.…

There are some other essays of his in this directory: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/essays/

I think Feynman may have used this book. He mentioned having a calculus book that had the same quotation that this one begins with: "I don't believe in the idea that there are a fe…

SICP and learning calculus.

"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing." —Philip Greenspun, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/20…

Transcript: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/importance.pdf

Thanks for the advice (and thanks to the others who responded to my post). I think I'll still give K&R a shot, possibly with the notes a13x recommended (I haven't had the time to c…

I'm one. Coincidentally, I'll also be starting to learn how to program tomorrow. I'll be learning C from K&R. I wish you the best of luck with Python.