Zombie-like, 6.001 rises from the dead to threaten students again. Unlike a zombie, though, it’s moving quite a bit faster than it did the first time. Like the original, don’t walk into the class expecting that it will teach you Scheme; instead, it attempts to teach thought patterns for computer science, and the structure and [...]
Here is a nice article about using VIM as a Python IDE. (via reddit)
Python and Django look interesting in how they empower you to work with the web. I was reading some interesting points about both here (the one interesting part about Python is that you might not need to know it in order to appreciate Django).
Here is a post of the history of some functional features in Python. It is not exhaustive, but it is interesting to hear the author’s take on things. (via reddit)
Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000. In 1980, good programmers spent a lot of time thinking, and then [...]