It soon became clear that the unconscious instincts for logic and language which had enabled me to succeed were not shared by the large majority of my students. - Susanna Epp (author of Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 5th edition)
Bjarne Stroustrup on the importance of Mathematics and Computer Science fundamentals
💻 I cont AB67 ributed a lot to Futurecoder and OSSU CS, so check them out!
🧠 Check out my Elements of Abstract Thinking
💬 Ask me about: math or code questions!
📫 How to reach me: spamegg1 on Discord, or on Slack, or on Matrix
⚡ Fun fact: I review online courses.
🔭 I’m currently working on: my own combined Math + CS curriculum, focusing on deep connections and foundations, ideas, history, abstract thinking and problem solving.
🌱 I’m currently learning: formalizing math in Lean4
🤔 I’m looking for: suggestions with interesting and creative ideas to teach logic gates, ALU / CPU, assembly; something simpler than Nand2Tetris.
🖥️ I use
(Apologies that I'm not able to share more. It's private for now! Imagine a mad scientist working in a cave... 👨🔬🕯️🦇🌑)
Work started January 2023. Expected finish 2033-2038, or when I 💀⚰️🪦
Year 1 (2023): Very productive!
First few years of "producing a lot of useful by-products."
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Wrote a complete roadmap. I know exactly what I'm doing!
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Gathered a ton of materials, books, notes, bookmarks, videos that will take me years to distill into the perfect mixture.
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Finished solutions to Epp's Discrete Math book which will form the backbone of the curriculum. (56K+ lines of LaTeX code, over 1000 pages of PDF when rendered.)
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Wrote a ton of code: 613 files, 260K+ lines of code. Roughly corresponds to Intro CS + Core Programming. Even contributed to open source a bit.
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Came up with Abstract thinking which will play a big role as another backbone. Highly experimental! 🧪
Year 2 (2024): (June) Progress somewhat stalled. Struggling with motivation 😥.
It's too hot and nice outside! 🌅🏖️🏞️ I need to replace thermal paste on my CPU.
But I'm constantly coming up with new awesome ideas! Videos on this channel are god-tier and exactly what I was thinking about...
- Studying a lot of low-level stuff. C with K.N. King's book and Rust with Rust Foundation book.
Useful byproducts continue:
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More low-level with Modern Systems Programming.
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and progress on Abstract thinking
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passing unbearable hot summer days by solving Advent of Code and thinking about how to teach the subtleties of problem solving.
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October 2024: work started on Tarski's world. Turns out parsing first-order logic is hard! 😆
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Started learning Lean for coding proofs.
Year 3 (2025):
- Jan - Mar 2025: More formalizing mathematics in Lean4, so progress will be slower.
- April 2025:
- Done with Lean for now. (It's highly unsuitable for the curriculum!)
- Teaching GPU programming is difficult; so I started contributing to a GPU library.
- I want to make a beginner-friendly GPU course based on it.