jeira

I am flabbergasted to see Gary Taubes being named a charlatan, especially since Taubes has written a whole freakishly long response to Guynete's articles on his blog:

http://garytaubes.com/

What seriously? I thought you had received funding from the World of Goo guys right? What a shame, seemed like a great game.

I don't think it is as straightforward as that. Imagine you're learning chess and you have a chess master as your teacher, you are going to annihilate someone who has putted the same amount of time, even more, but who doesn't have such a good teacher.

It's a lab-type period (I don't know how you call these in the States) where we are still working on paper.

At least I assume we are since we didn't had this week's class, but I went to the classroom and it was an ordinary one.

Done. Thanks for the help.

I'll ask him what he thinks about that. Thanks, really appreciated.

Thanks Eric, really appreciated for your offer. I don't know how you generally approach this but I've updated my HN account with my email.

I will continue attending the class and see if it is indeed more abstract and focused on topics like logic and visual stuff. I'll also ask a friend of mine about her experience with the class and the teacher about how the exams are handled.

Once again, thank you for your help. Really appreciated :)

But why only paper?

I am not against using paper to do things like doing a diagram so you can understand your algorithm better and its shortcomings, and you're right, knowing how to debug on paper is important, but how do you know you have a bug if you can't test the code in a computer?

Our practice classes don't have computers on the classroom. This is not to say you can't do that at home, of course)

Yes, I should have said something about it, but it is not, at least from what I've been told, about drawing boxes and having a visual representation of your algorithm, but actually writing it on Scheme. On a piece of paper.

What if I have a small bug, like a comma, or something small like that, out of place? I'll have to ask the teacher about it.

I'm thinking of just skipping this class and learn from OpenCourseware.

Thanks for your thoughts.