Opening Computer Science to Everyone with Chancellor Eric Grimson (S4E4)
there are tons of talented people around the world who will never have the Good Fortune to be able to come to MIT because we're a small place but who are perfectly capable of handling MIT quality MIT hard material today on Chalk radio making sense of computer programming for everyone if we could make that accessible to them and they use that to change careers or to start an Enterprise or do something how can that be anything but good I'm Sarah Hansen my guest for this episode wears many hats at MIT he's taught computer science for almost four decades and serves as mit's Chancellor for academic advancement he also serves as the interim vice president for open learning at MIT which ocw is a part of so yes that technically makes him my boss this very busy man's name Eric Grimson you might be familiar with Eric from his very popular introduction to computer science courses on ocw there's 6001 introduction to computer science and programming in Python a...