CS 81n: Hackers and Heroes

Dated Dec 14, 2025; last modified on Sun, 14 Dec 2025

  • Recreational Programming with
  • Hackers :
    • Ch 1: The Tech Model Railroad Club
    • Ch 2: The Hacker Ethic
    • Ch 3: Spacewar
    • Ch 4: Greenblatt and Gosper
    • Ch 5: The Midnight Computer Wiring Society
    • Ch 6: Winners and Losers
    • Ch 7: Life
    • The Last of the True Hackers
  • Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon
  • Rise of Worse Is Better
  • The Inner Ring
  • In the Beginning was the Command Line
  • Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game ‘life’
  • Conway’s Game of Life - Wikipedia
  • Interviewing Principles
  • An Insider’s View of ‘Ciscogate’
  • More Tales From ‘Ciscogate’
  • What is Engineering?
  • Any 5 stories from Folklore
  1. CS 81N: Hackers and Heroes. Keith Winstein. web.stanford.edu . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  2. Racket. racket-lang.org . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  3. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Steven Levy. 1984. ISBN: 978-0-385-19195-1 .
  4. Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon | by Verne | Medium. verne.medium.com . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  5. Rise of Worse Is Better. Richard Gabriel. www.dreamsongs.com . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  6. The Inner Ring. CS Lewis. www.lewissociety.org . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  7. In the Beginning was the Command Line. Neal Stephenson. web.stanford.edu . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  8. Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'life'. Martin Gardner. web.archive.org . Accessed Jun 2, 2009.
  9. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  10. Four Principles. www.columbia.edu . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  11. Information Security News: An Insider's View of 'Ciscogate'. Jennifer Granick. seclists.org . Aug 31, 2005. Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  12. [ISN] More Tales From 'Ciscogate'. Jennifer Granick. attrition.org . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  13. What is Engineering: A Graphic Novel of Tech and Philosophy - SparkFun Learn. Mel Chua. learn.sparkfun.com . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.
  14. Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh. www.folklore.org . Accessed Dec 14, 2025.