Kids Code & Computer Science

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Computer Science Unplugged

https://www.kidscodecs.com/computer-science-unplugged/

Computer Science Unplugged

http://csunplugged.org/
http://groups.google.com/group/cs-unplugged-sharing
http://csunplugged.org/unplugged-teachers
http://csunplugged.org/books
https://www.youtube.com/user/csunplugged
http://csunplugged.org/people

Tim Bell

http://csunplugged.org/users/tim-bell
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/

Ian Witten

http://csunplugged.org/users/ian-witten
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ihw/

Mike R. Fellows

http://www.mrfellows.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fellows

Tom Cortina (Carnegie Mellon University)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cs4hs/summer13/presentations/CSUnplugged2013Part1.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cs4hs/summer13/presentations/CSUnplugged2013Part2.pdf

Open Educational Resources (OER)

http://www.oercommons.org/browse/collection/computer-science-unplugged

National STEM Centre (UK)

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/collection/1648/computer-science-unplugged

National Center for Women in Technology

http://www.ncwit.org/resources/computer-science-box-unplug-your-curriculum

Kinesthetic Learning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesthetic_learning
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kla/

CS Unplugged and Middle-School Students' Views, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding CS

Academic research on how to connect CS Unplugged activities more directly to computer science concepts.
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci747s2c/lectures/taub-cs-unplugged-toce-12.pdf

What is Computational Thinking?

https://www.kidscodecs.com/what-is-computational-thinking/

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Computational Thinking

Jeannette Wing’s Viewpoint article published in the March 2006 issue of the Communication of the ACM magazine.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing06.pdf

Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Computational Thinking

http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CompThinking.html

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Computational Thinking Resources

http://www.iste.org/learn/computational-thinking

Exploring Computational Thinking (Google)

http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/lessons.html

Examples of Computational Thinking in the K-12 Experience

http://afterschoolconvening.itestlrc.edc.org/sites/afterschoolconvening.itestlrc.edc.org/files/Examples%20of%20Computational%20Thinking%20in%20the%20K-12%20Experience.pdf

Computational Thinking (Wikipedia)

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

Scalable Game Design and Computational Thinking

http://sgd.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Computational_thinking

Scalable Game Design and the Development of a Checklist for Getting Computational Thinking into Public Schools

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/SIGCSE10-repenning.pdf

Computational Thinking for Kids (Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)

http://www.eimacs.com/blog/2012/04/computational-thinking-for-kids/

Computer Science for the Rest of Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/business/computer-science-for-non-majors-takes-many-forms.html

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How to Create (and Crack) Secret Codes

https://www.kidscodecs.com/how-to-create-crack-secret-codes-ciphers/

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Ciphering a Sentence (Google)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14pzsXHABr3mIplbN_3Bc6RuZ8XzOiY0YqDNItse64Zo/edit

Cipher (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher

Letter Frequency

Some resources with information about how common individual letters are in the English language. The Wikipedia article includes data on Spanish, Turkish, Swedish, and other languages.
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-frequency-of-the-letters-of-the-alphabet-in-english
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

The Secret Language

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/secret/secret.html

Secret Codes for Cubs and Scouts

https://sites.google.com/site/codesforscouts/

Three Secret Codes to Try With Your Kids

http://www.makeandtakes.com/3-secret-codes-to-try-with-your-kids

Create Secret Codes and Ciphers (Wiki How)

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Secret-Codes-and-Ciphers

Cryptography (Wikipedia)

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

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Grace Hopper

https://www.kidscodecs.com/grace-hopper/

Grace Hopper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Grace_Hopper.aspx
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hopper.html
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/hopper.html
http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/294-the-mother-of-cobol.html
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html

Mark I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

Univac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I

Struktiron

http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/wiki/Category:Struktiron

Lauren Ipsum (a book review)

https://www.kidscodecs.com/lauren-ipsum/

Lauren Ipsum

http://www.laurenipsum.org/
http://www.laurenipsum.org/sample
https://www.facebook.com/laurenipsum

Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into Hackers (Wired)

http://www.wired.com/2012/05/facebook-engineer-lauren-ipsum/

Carlos Bueno

http://carlos.bueno.org/about.html

Ytaelena Lopez

http://ytaelena.tumblr.com/

Bogons

https://www.kidscodecs.com/bogons/

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Bogons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering

Martian Packets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_packet

Unsung Heroes Save Net from Chaos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8163190.stm

IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

http://www.iana.org/numbers
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml

Team Cymru

https://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/
https://www.team-cymru.org/About/
https://www.team-cymru.org/

Bogons Ate My Website

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/bogon-01.asp

Justice League

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_Manhunter

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Captcha

https://www.kidscodecs.com/captcha/

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Captcha

http://www.captcha.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/captcha.htm

Time to Kill Off Captchas

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-kill-off-captchas/

Google reCaptcha

http://www.google.com/recaptcha

NuCaptcha

http://www.nucaptcha.com/demo
http://www.elie.net/blog/security/how-we-broke-the-nucaptcha-video-scheme-and-what-we-propose-to-fix-it

SweetCaptcha

http://sweetcaptcha.com/

Google Authenticator

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Authenticator

Open Source Google Authenticator Projects

https://github.com/kaie/otp-authenticator-android
https://fedorahosted.org/freeotp/

xkcd: A New Captcha Approach

https://xkcd.com/233/

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The Turing Test

https://www.kidscodecs.com/the-turing-test/

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950 paper)

http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Test

The Loebner Prize

http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

The Turing Machine

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/machine.html

The Turing Machine in JavaScript

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/tmjava.html

Alan Turing

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/
http://www.turing.org.uk/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Chatterbots

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

Kobayashi Maru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Gp2Ir7n9M

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Data Types

https://www.kidscodecs.com/data-types/

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Data Types

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

C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29#Data_types

Erlang

http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/data_types.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29

PHP

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.intro.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_%28programming_language%29#Data_types

Ruby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

Common Lisp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Data_types

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FORTRAN

https://www.kidscodecs.com/fortran/

Fortran (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

The FORTRAN Programming Language

http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/fortran/fortran.html

John W. Backus

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus

FORTRAN Tutorials

http://folk.uio.no/hpl/scripting/doc/f77/tutorial/
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/documents/13601/162125/fortran_class.pdf
http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/Fortran95/PSTIResearchLecSeries1.html
http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/docs/course-notes/unix-courses/Fortran
http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/nmm1/Fortran/index.html
http://www.nsc.liu.se/~boein/f77to90/f77to90.html
http://nf.nci.org.au/training/FortranBasic/
http://nf.nci.org.au/training/FortranAdvanced/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGPj5cTGd58 (Windows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6GSvpGZfk (Linux)

FORTRAN/Fortran Compilers

http://www.personal.psu.edu/hdk/fortran.html
https://www.fortran.com/compilers.html
http://www.silverfrost.com/11/ftn95/ftn95_fortran_95_for_windows.aspx
http://www.silverfrost.com/23/ftn95/ftn95_documentation.aspx
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ (Mac)

The History of Emoticons

https://www.kidscodecs.com/history-of-emoticons/

Emoticons

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

12 Things You Didn’t Know About Emoticons

Includes an audio interview with Professor Fahlman.
http://matadornetwork.com/life/emoticon-history-facts/

Is than an Emoticon in 1862?

The controversy in all its gory detail.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/

The First Emoticon?

Robert Herrick invented it first. Seriously.
http://ivebeenreadinglately.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-first-emoticon.html
http://blogs.canoe.ca/canoetech/uncategorized/was-the-emoticon-created-in-1648/

Emoji IRL: A Q&A with the designer who sees emoticons as works of art

The oldsters discover emojis and get a youngster to explain the phenomenon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/01/15/emoji-irl-a-qa-with-the-designer-who-sees-emoticons-as-works-of-art/

Lists of Emoticons

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

1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_Walker

42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_number_42
http://douglasadams.com/