A Human Side of Alice 3D: Dr. Randy Pausch
Submitted by todd on Sat, 2007-09-22 08:49
I've mentioned the Alice 2.0 3D graphics app from Carnegie Mellon University whose purpose to introduce programming to kids and college students here before. Since I don't want to write a maudlin blog entry, I'll just say that the article linked below from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is about one of the people who helped start the Alice project.
Some lessons from Randy
Some lessons from Randy Pausch’s last lecture that especially moved me:
1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.
Check out the tribute quiz on the lecture at www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558