On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Philip Guo <p...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Agreed that finding more synergies (pardon my business-speak) between > computing and the liberal arts can be wonderful. Reminds me a bit of > Computing for Poets: > > http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/131/ >
Yes. Theater in particular because they hand you a "Programme" as you go in, and the actors are following "scripts". Objects in Python are likewise actors. Having a "self" makes OO intrinsically theatrical (agents doing stuff, acting out). Problems of parallelism might be "acted out" (Johnny, you block over here, until you, Sally, are ready to accept from the queue... OK Johnny, she's ready, walk your message to Jimmy for pre-processing...). I think the Liberal Arts could swallow CS tomorrow if CS were willing (CS has its reservations, nostalgia about math, but I say were swallowing math too so come on in the water's fine -- spoken like a true Philosophy major). Related: I practice a quaint Amish-like (Weird Al like) branch of Quakerism wherein we call ourselves "unprogrammed", the idea being if you follow a preacher and stand up and sit down a lot, you're just a big fat computer (holdover 1600s backlash against bloated churches). Here's a picture of our quaint little sign: http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/7037954577/in/photostream (note small print) Yes, Religion and theater go together -- any ethnographer could tell you that. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
