[geeks] What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Thu Apr 1 16:10:37 CST 2004


> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> Date: 2004/04/01 Thu PM 08:35:33 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [geeks] What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?

> I found this article today written by Brian Kernighan which a lot
> of people making decisions should read.
> 
> http://uwstudent.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20040311180313176

What? The link is to an announcement for a presentation that describes an interesting class he teaches at Princeton - computers for liberal arts majors...

I'd love to take a class like that - I *really* enjoyed reading "Code":

http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=5095367&domain_id=1856&meta_id=1
(link to low cost editions of the book)

And that provided a different way to look at computers...

Wonder if I could audit the class (I am near Princeton ;^)...



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