ESP Biography



DAVID BAU, MIT sophomore in computer science




Major: 6-3

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2020

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Past Classes

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C11841: Functions, and Nothing Else in Splash 2017 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2017)
Learn how to write any program without using numbers, operators, loops, conditionals, or memory -- nothing but functions applied to other functions applied to other functions. An introduction to the untyped lambda calculus, a human-readable programming language with only one keyword. Starts from first principles and builds Church encodings and the fixed-point Y combinator.


C11025: Functions, and Nothing Else in Splash 2016 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2016)
A speedy intro to untyped lambda calculus; or, a human-readable programming language in only two symbols. Learn how to reconstruct traditional programming constructs (numbers, arithmetic, conditionals, loops, and arrays) using nothing but anonymous function definitions and calls.