Kernighan Teaches... Liberal Arts?

Flamerule writes "The New York Times has an article (free registration required) examining a new course Brian Kernighan is teaching at Princeton, called "Computers in Our World", aimed at liberal arts students who won't be going into the tech field. The author describes it as "a kind of intellectual smorgasbord, combining public policy - like technology's impact on privacy, copyright and antitrust matters - with large helpings of practical knowledge of how things work, from operating systems to disk drives." The K&R text is mentioned, though not as reverently as some would demand."

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This should be interesting

[TerryAtWork]

This guy wrote the book on C (literally)

BUT - what has he done lately?

Seriously - it seems that the revolution has passed him by. I'm sure he's quietly done some great stuff since his book, I'd just like to know what it is.

Re:Enough to be dangerous

[orthogonal]

This course[' sic]s introduction should be "Here is what real software engineers do (insert com[p]lex UML diagram here), and this course won't prepare you to even get there."

[PEDANTIC][IRONY]
Apparently your English course did something similar when came to use of apostrophes to indicate possession?
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