April 2016 / 5 minutes / Learn More Links / Tim Slavin

April 2016 Learn More Links

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What Programming Language Should Students Learn First?

https://kidscodecs.com/best-first-programming-language/

Upperline Code

http://upperlinecode.com

Ruby

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/

TryRuby.org

http://tryruby.org/

Learn Ruby the Hard Way

http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/

Coding for Kids Ages 5-8

https://kidscodecs.com/coding-kids-ages-5-to-8/

Coding Schools

https://kidscodecs.com/coding-schools-2015/

How to Be a Better Programmer

https://kidscodecs.com/how-to-be-a-better-programmer/

10 golden rules for becoming a better programmer

http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/10-golden-rules-for-becoming-a-better-programmer/

Avoid using magic numbers and string literals in your code

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/avoid-using-magic-numbers-and-string-literals-in-your-code/

Usage of magic strings/numbers

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/221034/usage-of-magic-strings-numbers
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/221042

What is a magic number, and why is it bad?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47882/what-is-a-magic-number-and-why-is-it-bad

Magic Numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29

String Literals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_literal

Naming Conventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_convention_%28programming%29

The world’s two worst variable names

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/the_worlds_two_worst_variable.html

.Net StringBuilder Class

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/system.text.stringbuilder%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

DotNetRocks

http://dotnetrocks.com

Simple Programmer

http://simpleprogrammer.com

TryRuby.org

https://kidscodecs.com/try-ruby/

TryRuby.org

http://tryruby.org

Computing at School (CAS)

https://kidscodecs.com/computing-at-school/

Computing at School

http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/about

Computing at School Community

http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/door

CAS TV

http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/news_items/91
https://www.youtube.com/user/computingatschool

Teaching London Computing

https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/

CAS London Conference (February 2016)

http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/4174

Barefoot Computing

http://barefootcas.org.uk/

Code Club

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

Code Monster

https://kidscodecs.com/code-monster/

Code Monster

http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster

Crunchzilla

Includes Code Monster and three other online programs for older kids.
http://www.crunchzilla.com/

Go, AlphaGo, and Artificial Intelligence

https://kidscodecs.com/go-and-ai/

Pages for beginners

http://senseis.xmp.net/?PagesForBeginners

Consumi (online play)

http://www.cosumi.net/en/

Pandanet (Internet Go server)

http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/pandanet/49

Graded Go Problems for Beginners

http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Problems-Beginners-Vol-Introductory/dp/4906574467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457525578&sr=1-1&keywords=graded+go+problems+for+beginners

American Go Association

http://www.usgo.org/

American Go Federation

http://agfgo.org/pages/home.php

Where to play Go

http://www.usgo.org/where-play-go

The Surrounding Game (Go movie)

http://www.surroundinggamemovie.com/en

Garry Kasparov speaks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hf31xOhchY

Nature article

http://www.nature.com/news/go-players-react-to-computer-defeat-1.19255

Wired article (2014)

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/

Deep Mind

https://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html

Mastering Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html

Google Blogspot

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-mastering-ancient-game-of-go.html

The Computer that Mastered Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98

Lee Sedol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sedol

Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct

http://qz.com/639952/googles-ai-won-the-game-go-by-defying-millennia-of-basic-human-instinct/

ASCII

https://kidscodecs.com/ascii/

ASCII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/docs/ascii/

ANSI

http://www.ansi.org/

ISO

http://www.iso.org

UNICODE

http://www.unicode.org/
http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Character Encoding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

UTF-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Control Character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character

Binary Code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code

Numeral Notation Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number

Questions to Ask Summer Tech Camps

https://kidscodecs.com/questions-ask-summer-tech-camps/

101 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Summer Camp

https://www.idtech.com/blog/100-questions-to-ask-when-choosing-a-summer-camp/

ASCII Star Wars

https://kidscodecs.com/ascii-star-wars/

Telnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/telnet-faq#1TC=windows-7

Command Line Interface (CLI) Software

https://kidscodecs.com/where-to-find-command-line-interface-software/

Big-O Notation and the Wizards War

https://kidscodecs.com/big-o-wizards-war/

Big-O Notation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
https://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html
http://bigocheatsheet.com/

Search: A Tale of Algorithms, Computation, and Conspiracy

https://www.nostarch.com/searchtale

Computational Fairy Tales

http://computationaltales.blogspot.com
http://computationaltales.blogspot.com/p/book.html
https://twitter.com/compfairytales

Search: A Tale of Algorithms, Computation, and Conspiracy

To be released July 2016, you can order early and get a discount.
https://www.nostarch.com/searchtale

Best Practices of Spell Design

http://www.amazon.com/Practices-Spell-Design-Jeremy-Kubica/dp/1481921916

Computational Fairy Tales

http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Fairy-Tales-Jeremy-Kubica/dp/1477550291/

SmallTalks: Jeremy Kubica and Computational Fairy Tales

https://vimeo.com/70188494

The Architecture of Radio

https://kidscodecs.com/architecture-of-radio/

The Architecture of Radio

http://www.architectureofradio.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/architecture-of-radio/id1035160239?ls=1&mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.richardvijgen.architectureofradioAndroid

Richard Vijgen

http://www.richardvijgen.nl/

The Architecture of Radio Video

https://vimeo.com/136611737

OpenCellID

http://opencellid.org/
http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/What_is_OpenCellID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCellID

Infosphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosphere

Racket

https://kidscodecs.com/racket-language/

Racket and DrRacket IDE (free download)

https://racket-lang.org
https://racket-lang.org/download/
https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

The Pyret Language

https://www.pyret.org/

Picturing Programs

http://picturingprograms.com/

How to Design Programs

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-design-programs

Bootstrap World

http://www.bootstrapworld.org/
http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/fall2015/tutorial/

WeScheme (cloud-based Racket programming environment)

http://www.wescheme.org/

Computer Keyboard History

https://kidscodecs.com/computer-keyboard-history/

Computer Keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard
http://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/typing-through-time-the-history-of-the-keyboard/
http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Basis/keyboard.html

Typewriter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

Teleprinter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter

QWERTY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

Non-QWERTY Keyboard Layouts

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52483/6-non-qwerty-keyboard-layouts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltron
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/a-history-of-keyboard-layouts-is-qwerty-lagging-behind/

Projection Keyboards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard

Hansen Writing Ball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansen_Writing_Ball

Simplex Typewriter

http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2012/06/simplex-typewriter-glorious-simplicity.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhdZP16d9Uo
http://www.typewritermuseum.org/collection/index.php3?machine=simplex&cat=ic

What is the Blockchain?

https://kidscodecs.com/what-is-the-blockchain/

Blockchain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_%28database%29

Hash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

Forget Bitcoin: What is the Blockchain and Why Should You Care?

http://recode.net/2015/07/05/forget-bitcoin-what-is-the-blockchain-and-why-should-you-care/

The great chain of being sure about things

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21677228-technology-behind-bitcoin-lets-people-who-do-not-know-or-trust-each-other-build-dependable

Understanding the blockchain

http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/understanding-the-blockchain.html

REST

https://kidscodecs.com/rest/

REST

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-restful/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

Roy Fielding

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
http://roy.gbiv.com/
https://twitter.com/fielding

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

Complete dissertation by Roy Fielding which includes Chapter 5 about REST.
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

What Exactly is RESTful Programming?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671118/what-exactly-is-restful-programming

How I Explained REST to My Wife

http://www.looah.com/source/view/2284

HTTP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

URI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier

What is the Difference between a URI, a URL, and a URN?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176264/what-is-the-difference-between-a-uri-a-url-and-a-urn