I completed reading "Last Lecture" on 30th June'08! Its a great book by Randy Pausch .I was excited by the following quote in the book " Experience is what you get when you do not get what you wanted " - Fantastic.I downloaded the complete lecturegiven by Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon Univesity from Internet. Its fabulous ! You can get it with a simple search in youtube !!
Randy was affected by pancreatic cancer and he is about to die in few months. He did write this book for his children and to create an awarness about the cancer. The video series of the lecture at Carnegie Mellom University is simply superb !!! I just loved watching it !!! He is super cool and humorous.It a a must watch for every one !!
I was touched, when he called up his wife to celebrate her birthday in front of 400 students!He introduces to the Head Fake concept. It's interesting - It says Indirect learning is essential ! I did download the software ALICE and used it. Its good! I have also mailed my Undergraduate College Head Of Department,IT to use this software for the 3D programming course and also adviced the college to download the 3.0 version for teaching java. Its a software developed with randy's expertise.
This book truly emphasizes on the purpose of life. He has related things beautifully. Oh my god ! The girl who took the Elephant stuffed doll (Even she had pancreatic cancer) had run carrying olympic torch. I found this stuff in the internet.(You will understand this once you read the book)
He has a great love towards his family.The pre-recorded message in his telephone is awesome. The whole lecture comes to about 1 Hr 15 Min. I liked the way he emphasized on being truthful.
Enjoy reading !!
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