What Programming Language Should Students Learn First?
https://kidscodecs.com/best-first-programming-language/
Upperline Code
Ruby
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
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
Simple Programmer
TryRuby.org
https://kidscodecs.com/try-ruby/
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
Code Club
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)
Pandanet (Internet Go server)
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/pandanet/49
Graded Go Problems for Beginners
American Go Association
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
ASCII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/docs/ascii/
ANSI
ISO
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
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
The Architecture of Radio Video
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
Picturing Programs
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)
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
Understanding the blockchain
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/01/understanding-the-blockchain.html
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
