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Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

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Alan Kay discusses alternative approaches to teaching computer science and explains how poorly we currently understand complex systems.

Alan Kay talks about alternative approaches to teach Computer Science in schools. Turing Award winner Alan Kay is an renowned Computer Science pioneer. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts he is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.

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What people say. Engineers recommend this talk for Alan Kay's insights on systems thinking, the history of programming, and how we should teach computer science.

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skadamaton Hacker News • Recommends

On “People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard”

I would really really encourage everyone here to watch Alan Kay's recent talks on how poorly we understand systems and why it's critical we get better at managing them. Some good ones: - link - link to this video Some people have strong opinions about Alan Kay's CS / programming work and I'd really encourage them to put them aside and deeply understand his points + context. The programming parts aren't ever the point, he's deeply interested in how as humans we improve our ability to collaboratively manage systems.
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morphleon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?”

…lf-aware people struggling with the boundaries of human knowledge. I love to talk to such people also, so I search for them in the (scientific) crowd and befriend them so we can have those interesting conversations. Please contact me (morphle @ ziggo dot nl) and lets find out if we can have such a meaningful and satisfying exchange. 1 link 2 link to this video…
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xjayon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?”

…ery component, and how they're connected. Now you design the rest of the logic. "A programming language is a user interface as much as it is any other thing. Why have multiple ones? They are all Turing equivalent."—Alan C. Kay (see the talk for the context of the quote; starts at around 23:25) "Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015." link to this video "Most computer people went into computing because they were disturbed by other human beings."—Alan C. Kay…
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0xdeadbeefbabeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today”

Well what is thinking about then? What was the mistake the greeks made? In this video0 you said thinking is not about logic and that was the mistake the greeks made. 0 link to this video
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