FIN 340- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Finance Business Administration
• Course: FIN 340
• Professor: erick

Document Summary

Drawing inspiration from the success of seymour papert"s. Logo project at mit, rich designed an introductory programming environment in which students teach a robot to solve simple problems. That robot was named karel, after the czech playwright karel capek, whose 1923 play r. u. r. (rossum"s universal. Robots) gave the word robot to the english language. Karel was used in introductory computer science courses all across the country, to the point that rich"s textbook sold well over 100,000 copies. Many generations of cs106a students learned how programming works by putting karel through its paces. In the middle of the 1990s, the simulator we had been using for karel the robot stopped working. We were, however, soon able to get a version of karel up and running in the thetis interpreter we were using at the time. But then, a year ago, cs106a switched to java, and karel again vanished from the scene.