CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by ra66it » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 7:22 PM UTC

CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing [berkeley.edu]

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/

Give them the "big ideas" on one hand, and allow them to "peek under the hood" (do some visual programming with Scratch/BYOB/Snap) on the other. :)

CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing
inst.eecs.berkeley.edu

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by p4bl0 » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

Relevant: Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter[1] by Matthias Felleisen and Shriram Krishnamurthi (from 2008).

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=...

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 8:17 PM UTC

p4bl0 wrote: post #2

Relevant: Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter[1] by Matthias Felleisen and Shriram Krishnamurthi (from 2008). [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=...

Also relevant: "All Science Is Computer Science"[1]

[1] http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by bane » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 11:01 PM UTC

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by ra66it » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 12:18 AM UTC

bane wrote: post #4

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 12:37 AM UTC

ra66it wrote: post #5

bane wrote: post #4

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

Here's a good explanation: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1096

http://scene.org/ is very active with news. http://pouet.net/ is the canonical site for searching demos, you can find most demos here. (Demos really should be run in real-time, but you can find video links if you don't have the hardware or don't want to download the program.)

I'll just highlight one example that shows application to CS research: Numb Res by CNCD and Fairlight, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOC_ajkRkU and explanation https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by BinaryJesus » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 12:39 AM UTC

ra66it wrote: post #5

bane wrote: post #4

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

/\ That is exactly why some people would rather die than do CS course.

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by sp332 » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 1:59 AM UTC

BinaryJesus wrote: post #7

ra66it wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

/\ That is exactly why some people would rather die than do CS course.

Sorry, were you replying to me or to ra66it? And what do you mean?

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by vph » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 2:47 AM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #3

p4bl0 wrote: post #2

Relevant: Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter[1] by Matthias Felleisen and Shriram Krishnamurthi (from 2008). [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/62187369/Untitled?secret_password=...

Also relevant: "All Science Is Computer Science"[1] [1] http://www.cs.iastate.edu/all-science-is-cs.html

Computing plays a role in all sciences, but to say all science is computer science is a little far-fetched.

Re: CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

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Post by bane » Sun, Oct 23, 2011, 6:40 AM UTC

ra66it wrote: post #5

bane wrote: post #4

Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.

we do a lot of demos, but why demoscene?

The demoscene is at the intersection of art, music programming, hacking, online groups, tech festivals etc. It has a long history with a tremendous corpora of productions, techniques, culture, publications, etc. It's probably the biggest sub culture that nobody has ever heard of, with thousands of computing enthusiasts getting together in arenas to literally show off their code.

In the demoscene, code is art.

Its participants will literally consume years of their life on a production for nothing but the pleasure of it.

When I saw the title of the course I immediately assumed at least half the semester was going to be on the demoscene since no computing based cultural movement I'm aware of more succinctly speaks to the course title than the demoscene.