Q & A with MIT Professor John Guttag
HiJohn Guttag. By day, I'm a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and also a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. But you probabaly know me as the figurehead or something behind 6.00 and the whole series of 6.00 courses. It's a really good question about what keeps a learner interested in pursuing this topic. We designed this course actually to be a hard course. It's very similar to what we teach at MIT. And we really didn't want to compromise on the opportunity for students to learn alot. However, as it's been said there's no royal road to mathematics. There's no royal road to computer science. To learn a lot, you actually have to work. On campus, we are able to provide the students who are struggling a lot of interaction and counseling and dare I say it hand-holding to encourage them to keep going. It's much harder to do that when we don't physically meet with the stu...