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Coursera: Pamela Fox is a Courserian!
Editor’s note: Pamela Fox is a newly hired Frontend Engineer. Before joining us, she went to USC for her Computer Science degree and spent 5 years in Google Developer Relations. To help you get to know her, we asked a few questions… What was the weirdest, most fun, or most inspiring course you ever took? When I was in high school, I spent many of my summers at CTY, a summer camp for teens like me that liked learning so much that we wanted to continue learning during the summer - plus doing other ridiculous activities like “Face scotch-taping” and “Funny walks”. My favorite summer was when I took the “Ethics” class. We learned a lot by reading, but I loved that we also learned by engaging in heated debates, watching Monty Python skits (“Argument vs. Contradiction”), and by putting on a mini-musical (“Utilitarrrrrrianism, it beats barbariannnnism, when you’re in a moral schism, you can use utilitarianismmmmmm!