Prompts for “Beating the Averages”
Due on Wednesday, March 9 by 10pm
Read “Beating the Averages” by Paul Graham in the course packet and answer the following questions. Note that one paragraph was cut short in the version of the reading I sent to the course packet printing service. To read that entire paragraph, have a look at the course PDF.
- Graham is a big proponent of Lisp. He even has his own dialect of Lisp, on which runs Hacker News. Do you think that his advice is biased by or informed by his experiences with Lisp? Do you think that his advice is good?
- Have you ever had a programming experience that “felt good”? If so, tell me about it. If not, what do you think stops you from feeling this way? Was it something about the language? Something about the problem? Something about you?
Length
Your response should be short: at least 200 words and no more than 400 words total.
Submission Instructions
Commit your response to your short responses repository. You must commit both your .tex source file and your generated .pdf. You are required to use LaTeX to typeset your response.
QUESTION RESPONSE FILE MUST BE NAMED reading05.pdf.