weekly schedule 2020 - semester 2

feb 1

• copmutation about means of understanding
• • ~~cantell smith~~
• • ~~terry winograd~~
• • niklas wirth
• • ~~history of programming languages~~
• ~~semantics in programming languages~~

feb 8

• ~~aesthetics about means of understanding (lit)~~
• • conferences + books to order
• • cognitive psychology
• • build reference list
• • • software and mind
• • • philosophy of computer science (pp.123-144, pp.492-501, pp.537-559, pp.648-667)
• • • aesthetics of code (pp.159-201 - pp.201-237)
• • • skim a-z of programming languages for references to beauty
• • weekend
• • • see aesthetics/ folder (based on the cambridge syllabus)

feb 15

• read refs from rapaport
  • [https://www.chronicle.com/article/decoding-the-value-of-computer-science/]
  • [https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~cfk/cs-liberal-arts-accepted.pdf]
  • [http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/software.htm] patterns!
  • [https://www.jstor.org/stable/27903620] software ontology
  • [https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ242987] what is a program?
  • paragraph 10.4.2
  • [https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2005/8/6141-software-as-art/fulltext]
  • read 19.4.3 for Lakoff
  • putnam, representation and reality, 1988 (pp.121-125)
  • rapaport 1999, implementation is semantic interpretation
  • [https://www.ehu.eus/documents/1134202/0/Lamport+-+Who+Builds+a+House+without+Drawing+Blueprints.pdf] -> look for “abstraction is an art”
  • [https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-zenon-pylyshyn/class-info/FP2012/FP2012_readings/Dennett_RealPatterns.pdf]
• ~~aesthetics about means of understanding (lit)~~
• • go through reference list

feb 22

• write recap and touch base with advisors