Comments by "SterileNeutrino" (@SterileNeutrino) on "Advanced Programming" video.

  1. Felleisen's books on Scheme ("The Little and the Seasoned Schemer") is a pretty good intro to programming in a (sadly untyped) functional language. After that, followup with Prolog which will yield a number of aha experiences (There is "The Reasoned Schemer" as an intro into logic programming with Scheme/Racket syntax which is a bit weird but okay too, and there is "The Little Prover" (theorem-proving) and "The Little Typer" (dependently typed languages, but I would rather use Idris for that), so apparently computer science is growing up slowy and moving out of the "let's program anything it's gonna be fine" stage. A functional language should be compelling to a mathematician and not everyone wants to go full Haskell or worry about the compressed crud that is "ECMAScript". Avoid Python, it's highly regarded (I don't know why it even exists except that everyone uses it because everyone uses it), and you don't want to do system programming in that language for the PDP-11, "C" or its overly baroque "C++" by the guy who didn't quite get object orientation.
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