Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)" video.

  1. Says the valet parking runner? ;-)
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  2. He has some good points, but at the end of the day everybody "programs in C" because what we want from a program are the side effects, i.e. the execution of the functions. It doesn't matter how we package these functions and how we call them. The goal of programming is always about an algorithm to solve a problem (and solving that problem is the actual goal, but never mind that). What makes this a quality class is that he is teaching you what the compiler does with your code, because that is important, no matter which paradigm you use and in what language you write. This looks like a much better class than some others I have seen (even from Stanford professors).
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  3. If they don't teach this now, then they are not teaching you well. ;-)
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