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"By having students actually create music, Mr. Kapur and Mr. Cook hope to show the value of understanding computer science. Using a music program that responds in real time provides "instant gratification," Mr. Cook added, and can interest students who weren't originally attracted to computer programming."

"We need an educational structure that takes instability and unpredictability as its starting point, its fundamental assumption. If a university is not made up of stable, enduring structures arranged linearly or hierarchically-schools, departments, majors, minors-but rather is made up of components that can be used or deployed according to demand and need, then invention instead of convention becomes the governing institutional dynamic."