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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Geek religion

[Derwen]

"The K&R text is mentioned, though not as reverently as some would demand"

Then they should have got Saint Ignucius to write the article. ;-)

Re:This should be interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Well, maybe he doesn't want to share it with you ;-P

A train stops at a train station. A bus stops at a bus station. This explains the problem with my workstation.

Re:not educated unless you know technology

[T1girl]

I attend both MIT and Stanford
Wow, you must have a heck of a commute!

dept

[vectra14]

from the old-programmers-are-never-free()'ed dept.

no duh, they're delete'ed.

Re:Enough to be dangerous

[Terralthra]

My first language is French and I also speak French but I don't pretend top be a professional translator.

Good thing, your translation skills would be severely limited by only speaking French!

Although it's pretty clear you also know English. =]

Maybe he has gone the way of Donald Knuth...

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