Here are two great lectures given by Alan Kay at Y Combinator's Sta...
Alan Kay is an American computer scientist, who was a pioneer in ob...
> ***"Computers are to computing as instruments are to music. Softw...
**Architecture dominates the material.** Architecture is the art of...
If you are curious and want to learn more about Alan Turing's views...
The Turing tar-pit refers to programming languages that allow for f...
**WYSIWYG** is an interface that abstracts certain tasks from the u...
This is basically the concept of ["Customer driven development"](ht...
> ***"Computers were stubborn. They insisted on doing what was said...
> ***"Natural scientists are given a universe and seek to discover ...
The author advocates for simplicity in the design of computer softw...
**Object-oriented programming (OOP)** is a programming paradigm bas...
The author believes that the limitations of software architecture a...
VisiCalc (visible calculator) was the first killer app of the compu...
> ***"Does this mean that what might be called a driver-education a...
The author considers the construction of mentality with a machine a...
The author states that the computer can act like a machine with a c...
The author advocates for early immersion of kids in computing. Like...
