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Programming as a Way of Life

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Last lecture (Week 10) in my fall quarter class, Programming as a Way of Life

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programming as a way of life

Last Lecture in Python
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scribes

three volunteers, no need to write slides
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friday deadline

  • After 5pm this Friday
  • After Friday 5pm, no late work accepted
  • Commit everything to github repo
  • Self & faculty eval due online
  • Come to Thursday lab for help
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bitcoin

  • A new kind of money: cryptocurrency
  • A new kind of money: cryptocurrency
  • Free from inflation
  • Free from inflation
  • Fast to transfer, anywhere with internet
  • Fast 
  • Not controlled by any nation
  • (More) anonymous
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bitcoin

  • Achieved through hard math puzzles
  • Puzzle: predicting a hash function
  • Getting zeroes in SHA-256
  • Achieved through programming
  • Enforced by users, computational power
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bitcoin & github

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
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up and to the right

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
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is it a bubble

like dutch tulip bulbs, subprime mortgages
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heat of information

crypto warmth by bitcoin mining
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any news?

heard of anything cool done with programming?
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review

biased towards classes
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pythonic

the adjective for "that is soooo python"
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emptiness

of a list
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class: turtles

world-carrying, teenage mutant ninja, etc.
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scopes & classes

a way of limiting scope in a module
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types & classes

a more general, customizable type
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class members

data members, function members (methods)
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objects & classes

instances & templates
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objects & classes

instances & templates
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CLASS: MONEY

easter island stone wheel
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CLASS: MONEY

dollar, euro, yuan, yen, real, rupee, peso
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CLASS: MONEY

wizarding currency
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coding exercise

remember to share the typing
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classes everywhere

learn to see them wherever you go
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classES everywhere

learn to see them wherever you go
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CLASS: YOU CHOOSE!

make up a new class and its members
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object-oriented programming

good preparation for java
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history of programming languages

http://oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf
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tiobe index

OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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to java and beyond!

  • If you want to read ahead
  • Head First Java textbook
  • Think Java online PDF textbook
  • Java course at Lynda.com
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MY TEACHING STYLE

  • Collaborative teaching
  • Collaborative / pair learning
  • Creative writing
  • More inspirational than technical
  • Choose your own project!
  • Invitation to be a colleague
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THURSDAY LAB

projects, snacks, more python goodies
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jobs in python

craigslist http://bit.ly/J0zja1
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the end

It's been great teaching you!
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Paul Pham

http://colony.wordpress.com