36. Appendix: An itinerary for guest lectures
This appendix shows some examples of possible guest lectures which would show some of the material in this book. It is mostly meant to provide links
36.1. Motivation for linking computing and scholarship
36.1.1. Personal story
1980 and the first personal computres
1983 and the Reed College physics department requiring that we learn to program
1983 and David Basin trading: he teaches me C and UNIX if I teach him to play guitar
1985 and Nerdix
1985 and watching Keith Packard hack
Realizaing that others did not get this level of computing instruction
1992 and an impossible physics thesis thanks to software sophistication
36.1.2. Software freedom
The only reason I have enjoyed my career as a physicist is because of the existence of software freedom.
36.1.3. What can be done in various disciplines
Although I have not seen it represented graphically, there is a timeline
36.1.4. How a physicist-hacker looks at things
The glow worms in New Zeland.
Constellations in the random number calculation of pi.
36.2. A tour of topics
36.2.1. The history and calculation of pi
36.2.2. Generating music
To give this presentation it is useful to first have the students install the sox utilities on their own computers.