<p>[Build</a> Your Own Blocks (BYOB)](<a href=“http://byob.berkeley.edu/]Build”>http://byob.berkeley.edu/)</p>
<p>3S and 3L are both going to be gone, replaced by CS 10 with this monstrosity that can’t even be called a language.</p>
<p>There goes our CS curriculum…</p>
<p>I’m thinking it was Dan Garcia? It sucks that 3S is disappearing though, but most CS majors don’t take those classes anyway, so I don’t really see how it affects the CS curriculum.</p>
<h2>Oh, that was me. Sorry. As with many terrible decisions I’ve made, it seemed like a good idea at the time.</h2>
<p>Speaking seriously, though, I have no idea why so many people in a position to make these decisions like visual programming languages so much. I guess there MAY be people out there who do better with VB, Labview, etc., but I and literally EVERY other programmer I know would rather have to deal with terribly-named functions and horrible syntax than EVER, EVER have to deal with those languages again.</p>
<p>do you have a link to an announcement? Sounds pretty terrible though.</p>
<p>A friend in 3S got an email from Garcia saying that as of Fall 2011 the class would end, except that those who only took it for 2 or 3 units could enroll in the fall and finish up to four units.</p>
<p>Hope I’m not the only who was expecting a rant about “Bring Your Own Beer”</p>
<p>^I was expecting “be your own boss”</p>
<p>Harvey and Garcia are responsible for creating BYOB by modifying Scratch which was invented at MIT.</p>
<p>BYOB was developed by Jens Mönig and Brian Harvey. Not Garcia…</p>
<p>Do you all know about this? I just saw it today.</p>
<p>[Brian</a> Harvey’s retirement plan](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/retire.html]Brian”>Brian Harvey's retirement plan)
[What’s</a> Going On with 61A?](<a href=“http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a.html]What’s”>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/61a.html)</p>