Comment Re:Speaking of university... (Score 4, Interesting) 497
That sucks. I had a different experience.
My freshman instructor in CS50, the first class you take in CS, was a special guest instructor that year.
I shit you not, I was taught C by none other than Brian Kernighan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
Hint: He's the "K" in "AWK". He helped Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie invent UNIX at Bell Labs. He co-authored "The C Programming Language", the very first book on programming in C, and widely considered by most to be the bible of modern programming.
He was extremely fun and engaging, and I felt honored to be in the presence of one of the forefathers of modern computing.
My freshman instructor in CS50, the first class you take in CS, was a special guest instructor that year.
I shit you not, I was taught C by none other than Brian Kernighan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
Hint: He's the "K" in "AWK". He helped Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie invent UNIX at Bell Labs. He co-authored "The C Programming Language", the very first book on programming in C, and widely considered by most to be the bible of modern programming.
He was extremely fun and engaging, and I felt honored to be in the presence of one of the forefathers of modern computing.
