Wow! A space for reading Ideas that Created the Future sounds grand. Although I am a web developer I have no Math or CS background either. I would only be able to join from 5-6pm GMT on Tuesday’s because of another study group, but I would be interested in giving it a go! :)
Super <3 I'll send you the details early next week. I think it's ok to skip sessions (+ the 1.5 hours might be too long anyways), since the docs will hopefully support learning in between :)
I’ll buy the book and look into it a bit before jumping into commitments, for once! The history of the Computer Age is fascinating, but this sounds like jumping in at the deep end for an amateur CS student like me. Perhaps I might join in as a fly on the wall (… fly in the soup?).
Heheh, so I definitely do not know how this experiment will turn out. Maybe for me the important thing is not to understand every single part, but to get an overall sense of the foundational papers, so I don't think backgrounds matter that much, only curiosity. But fly in the soup is a great way, and we can keep the Discord chat function open too.
For amateur CS students (like me!) I recommend Isaacson's The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, James Gleick's Information, both very pop sci approaches. And then for a bit more technical The Pattern on the Stone by Danny Hillis and Code by Charles Petzold.
Yeah, it’s worth trying it out. Let us know how it works and how to attend. I have the Isaacsson book on my bedside table, just hidden under a Pisa-esque swaying tower of many others. My copy of ‘Ideas’ is thankfully an ebook.
Wow! A space for reading Ideas that Created the Future sounds grand. Although I am a web developer I have no Math or CS background either. I would only be able to join from 5-6pm GMT on Tuesday’s because of another study group, but I would be interested in giving it a go! :)
Super <3 I'll send you the details early next week. I think it's ok to skip sessions (+ the 1.5 hours might be too long anyways), since the docs will hopefully support learning in between :)
I’ll buy the book and look into it a bit before jumping into commitments, for once! The history of the Computer Age is fascinating, but this sounds like jumping in at the deep end for an amateur CS student like me. Perhaps I might join in as a fly on the wall (… fly in the soup?).
Heheh, so I definitely do not know how this experiment will turn out. Maybe for me the important thing is not to understand every single part, but to get an overall sense of the foundational papers, so I don't think backgrounds matter that much, only curiosity. But fly in the soup is a great way, and we can keep the Discord chat function open too.
For amateur CS students (like me!) I recommend Isaacson's The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, James Gleick's Information, both very pop sci approaches. And then for a bit more technical The Pattern on the Stone by Danny Hillis and Code by Charles Petzold.
Yeah, it’s worth trying it out. Let us know how it works and how to attend. I have the Isaacsson book on my bedside table, just hidden under a Pisa-esque swaying tower of many others. My copy of ‘Ideas’ is thankfully an ebook.