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Name:   2010-07-03 1:14

6.002

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/video-lectures/embed01/

In this lecture, the professor explains how computer science and programming languages have been abstracted from other abstractions, starting from

Observations of nature in experiments

to

Laws of Physics, generalizations that we can apply to these observations (Maxwell’s equations, Ohm’s law, etc.)

to

Lumped circuit abstractions

to

Digital abstractions

to

Lumped circuit abstractions

to

Combinational logic abstractions

to

Clocked digital abstractions

to

Instruction set abstractions (ex. x86, alpha)

and finally to programming languages.

MIT's EE and CS departments are conjoint for good reason.  Don't you think there is something incoherently wrong of people jumping into programming without having a solid understand of what programing has been abstracted upon?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 1:33

Read SICP

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 1:33

I do. That's why I'm studying electronics with a heavy Computer Science curriculum.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 1:45

>>3
No one cares about you, but Xarn on the other hand...

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 2:02

There is nothing about programming that necessitates the entire stack you mention. CS (and, by extension, programming languages) doesn't fundamentally depend on physical computers, and certainly not the specific computers you seem to think everyone should be using.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 2:04

>>4
Dolt. The Xarn cult you whine about does not exist.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 2:42

>>6
Then why do you faggots post about Him in every fucking thread?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 3:20

>>4,7
Fucking look at the front page, and count how many threads mention him. Even this one only does because you brought him up.
Fuck off.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 3:59

>>8
Him*

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 4:09

>>5
“[Programming languages don't] fundamentally depend on physical computers”
Is that so.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 4:40

xarnbump
>>8 ur visibly upset

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 4:48

>>11
Fuck you.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 5:05

You're upset is showing!
P.S. I used you're on purpose instead of your

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-03 5:06

*Grabs popcorn*
*Grabs buttery dick"

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