[canvascritic]

Stumbled upon norvig's pytudes years ago during a leetcode grind. His elegant approach to problems always had this touch of clarity that only few possess. Python, with its expressive syntax, combined with norvig's penchant for crafting illuminating examples, has definitely provided me with numerous 'aha' moments. I recall, early in my career when learning about bayesian probabilities, that it was peter's "how to write a spell checker" that made the abstract concrete for me. it's really heartening to see such a legend continuously contributing to and enriching the programming community.

[fsociety]

Ditto. His Udacity course opened me up to how expressive, yet understandable, code can be with some careful thought. Lots of wow moments comparing my solutions to his.

[dacryn]

can you specify which one? There seem to be multiple courses by him

[dubya]

My guess is this one: https://learn.udacity.com/courses/cs212, "Design of Computer Programs".