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| * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming | * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming | ||
| - | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12: | + | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12: |
| * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL | * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL | ||
| - | * Lectures: Mon 3: | + | * Lectures: Mon 3: |
| * Office hours: | * Office hours: | ||
| * tbd //and by appointment// | * tbd //and by appointment// | ||
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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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| + | //I did make up this term [object oriented] and it was a bad choice because it **under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending**.// | ||
| //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.// | //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.// | ||