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February 01, 2005
Oh boy, what an experience
A few thoughts from my first 6.001 class:
Oh, but first, some introduction. 6.001, also known as Structure and Interpretation of Computer Systems, is basically the intro computer science class here at MIT. I'm taking it mostly because although I understand some bits and pieces of programming, I often feel like it would help considerably to 'fill in the holes', so to speak. Plus, I'm looking for a class which will exercise my programming ability - so far, the programming that I've done has been pretty lightweight and I'd like to be a bit stronger.
Anyway, my thoughts... The class was dead. The prof tried to crack a few jokes but nobody laughed. When he spent the briefest few seconds going over binary, you could feel the room seething with resentment, as if everyone in the room felt it was below them and why should they put up with this, anyway. To me, it seems kinda sad... Here's the new generation of geeks rising, and they can't laugh at a little bit of computer history or appreciate any of the trivial stuff. Maybe all they want to do is start the next Microsoft. Too bad for them.
I keep going back and forth between thinking this will be a good class or a bad class for me. It'll be a lot of work, that much is obvious. Maybe I just won't need that much work, and I'll drop it. Or maybe it'll be cool and I'll keep it. Who knows.
Now, to call my sweetheart... :-D
Sent from: Karl Gutwin
Posted by kgutwin at February 1, 2005 11:00 AM
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