
Ham radio for folks with disabilities. I teach automata in CS 121 for two reasons really. One is that they show the facility of straightforward formal models, in the same manner as mechanical engineers are amazed by the facility of extremely spare mathematical equations with the precise primitives (Newton’s laws or Maxwell’s). They don’t love studying div and curl, but my goodness, their explanatory energy. These formalisms underpin the event of the practice of computing into a science. (It is a dense course. We really do wind up talking about NP-completeness, so the nondeterminism with which we begin comes back in the a practical context on the end.) It’s certainly not the only good set of concept material for this position, but I would defend the relevance of requiring something like this. Present college students are born players and should you like playing them you’re very prone to love making … Read more