Talks

Rich Hickey on Are We There Yet?

• How to think about immutability and time.
• Presents some solutions with these restrictions in mind.
• Time-varying data.

Alan Kay on Graphical User Interfaces

• History of graphical user interfaces.
• Explore and discover new paradigms.

Bret Victor on Inventing on Principle

• Identify restrictions held by convention.
• Prefer visual representations that can be manipulated.
• Integrate text with ui.

Lectures

Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman gives lectures for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

• These age-old lectures can still teach you a thing or two.
• Founded on Lambda Calculus, you’re gradually introduced to programming language paradigms and concepts many of todays languages, like C++11 and Java 8, just recently introduced (or will).
• All lectures are engagingly taught.