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| | **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu | | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 | | | **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu | | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 | | ||
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| * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | ||
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| //Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.// --Alan Kay | //Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.// --Alan Kay | ||
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| + | //Though OOP came from many motivations...the small scale [motivation] was to find a more flexible version of assignment, and then to try to eliminate it altogether.// --Alan Kay, [[http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/|The Early History of SmallTalk]] | ||
| <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\ | <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\ | ||