Keeping Fun in Computing
summary
A nostalgic TI‑83 program from 2003 reproduces the Matrix rain as a self‑made open source toy, a concrete example of play; a popcorn‑eating robot collection and TED talk shows deliberate “failures” that teach hardware; the Clock of the Long Now is engineered to tick once a year with a century hand and a 10,000‑year goal; Claude Shannon’s 1950 chess paper and his working Theseus maze mouse prototype show curiosity turned into artifacts; PyPI’s cheese shop 404 and PEP jokes (pep 404, import braces syntax error) keep Python whimsical.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:38Alan Perlis
- 3:34Simone yurts
- 6:50Danny Hillis
- 11:00Stupid Hackathon
- 14:07Claude Shannon
- 19:50Python Fun
