Randy Pausch教授最后的讲座.doc(8)

Randy Pausch教授最后的讲座

第一年我们教着门课， 那完全是摸着石头过河。 我开这门课只是看我们能做什么。我们刚学 会了如何在三维图形上做纹理映射，我们可以做出有点像样的东西。但是你知道，我们是用 按现在标准很差的电脑。但我想试试看。在我的新大学，我打了几个电话，我说我要把这门 课列在其它系的课表上以让那些非计算机系的人能参与。不到 24小时，有五个系就列了这门 课。我爱这所大学。我的意思是这是最了不起的地方。学生门，那我们做什么内容呢？我 说，见鬼，我不知道。你们想做什么就做什么。但有两条规则：没有枪击暴力，没有色情。 并不是因为我特别反对这些，但你知道，已经有人用虚拟现实做过这些了，对不对？ [笑]当 你不允许想暴力，色情时，你会惊奇的发现有那么多 19岁男孩完全没了主意。 [笑声及掌声]

Anyway, so I taught the course. The first assignment, I gave it to them, they came back in two weeks and they just blew me away. I mean the work was so beyond, literally, my imagination, because I had copied the process from Imagineering's VR lab, but I had no idea what they could or couldn't do with it as undergraduates, and their tools were weaker, and they came back on the first assignment, and they did something that was so spectacular that I literally didn't, ten years as a professor and I had no idea what to do next. So I called up my mentor, and I called up Andy Van Dam. And I said, Andy, I just gave a two-week assignment, and they came back and did stuff that if I had given them a whole semester I would have given them all As. Sensei, what do I do? [laughter]

总之，我教了课。布置作业，两周内他们回来让我大吃一惊。他们的作品远超出我的想象。 我是从幻想工程那学的这套做法，但我对本科生能不能做这个是完全没数，而且他们的工具 也差。可他们第一次交的作业就如此出色以至于我从当教授十年以来，第一次不知道下一步 该怎么办。于是我打电话给我的本科导师，安迪.凡丹。我说，安迪，我给了他们两周的作 业，而他们交上来的功课像是用一学期做出来的水平。 请夫子教我？ [笑]

And Andy thought for a minute and he said, you go back into class tomorrow and you look them in the eye and you say, "Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better." [laughter] And that was exactly the right advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere. And boy was that good advice because they just kept going. And during that semester it became this underground thing.

安迪想了想，说，你明天到课堂，看着他们的眼睛说， "伙计，赶得不错，但我知道你门能做 得更好" 。 [笑声] 这是至好的建议。因为他说的是，很显然你不知道标准要定多高，你主观的把标准定在哪儿对他们都不好。这意见真棒，因为他们不断提高。就在那个学期，这成了前 卫课程。

I'd walk into a class with 50 students in it and there were 95 people in the room. Because it was the day we were showing work. And people's roommates and friends and parents - I'd never had parents come to class before! It was flattering and somewhat scary. And so it snowballed and we had this bizarre thing of, well we've got to share this. If there's anything I've been raised to do, it's to share, and I said, we've got to show this at the end of the semester. We've got to have a big show. And we booked this room, McConomy. I have a lot of good memories in this room. And we booked it not because we thought we could fill it, but because it had the only AV setup