On Lisp
Graham publishes a study of advanced programming techniques using the language, with the theme of bottom-up programming.
Its examples form a library of functions and macros that readers will be able to use in their own Lisp programs.
Consulting and painting
0 CommentsGraham takes temporary software development jobs, paints, and attends art school.
I was doing this thing where I would consult for a while and then run out of money and be in a panic.
Art school
0 CommentsGraham enrolls in the Rhode Island School of Design in the summer, and in the fall takes classes at Florence’s Accademia di Belle Arti, a 500-year-old art school founded during the Renaissance.
I never cared about the official rules
Harvard PhD
0 0 reuben reuben2014-10-12 13:57:272015-03-22 02:53:19Harvard PhDMasters degree
Graham earns a Masters in Applied Sciences at Harvard, focusing on Computer Science.
Graduates Cornell
Graham graduates in the Class of ’86 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and a lot of experience in computer science:
What I learned from trying to study philosophy is that the place to look is in other fields.
On his decision to study computer science:
I took so many CS classes that most CS majors thought I was one.
Paul Graham born in Weymouth, England
Paul Graham is born in Weymouth, Dorset. The family moves to the U.S. and he grows up outside Pittsburgh, where his father works as a physicist designing nuclear reactors and his mother takes raises him and his sister. He starts writing computer code in high school, including a program to predict the flight path of model rockets.
If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I’d tell him would be to stick his head up and look around.