[KwartzLab] Computer Science from the Top and Bottom

[Jonathan Lamothe]

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Have you considered recording these and posting them as a series on
YouTube?

On 12-11-27 10:52 AM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> It is no secret that I'm fairly disgruntled in general with the
> state of University education, especially in my field.
> 
> Over past months I've been working on the construction of a
> curriculum that provides base Computer Science concepts.  The core
> philosophy is to start simultaneously at the "top" with the highest
> abstraction level (building syntax and semantics) and the "bottom"
> with the lowest level (RAM layout and machine instructions), and
> then move in step towards the middle.
> 
> I am on track to have an edited second draft of the curriculum
> completed by the end of December, and will then wish to run a
> course based on this curriculum in the new year as a way to both
> test the philosophy and gain feedback.
> 
> The intended target for this first version of the course will be
> (1) programmers with no formal Computer Science background, (2)
> people with a CS degree who wish to get a refresher (or to heckle
> me), (3) mathish or sysadmin persons who have an interest in
> getting some base in Computer Science.  Based on conversations with
> people both in the greater KWartzLab community and Waterloo in
> general, I am convinced that there are many such persons in the
> region.
> 
> The format for this first version of the course will be a fairly
> fast-paced roughly 8-week (notionally, 1 night per week)
> presentation that involves a bare minimum of lecture-style and a
> maximum of tinkering with concepts and Q&A where students can get
> concrete answers to the bits of the material they're playing with
> or struggling with.  It will of course be entirely gratis for
> attendance and nothing will be mandatory.
> 
> All that said, I'm sending this email to gauge interest in the
> community in such a course, and also to get feedback from any
> interested parties on what sort of timeline (assuming a course
> starting early January) in terms of days of the week, number of
> hours per session people could put up with, etc. Venue would be
> TBD, though I would love to do it at KWartzLab.
> 
> 
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