Kids Code & Computer Science

Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for the month of October 2013. More stories can be found at the Software Programming and Computer Science News Wire link at the top of every page of this site.

Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/

Flat UI and Forms

Some insights on flat design and its impact on page design, user interfaces, and forms.
http://alistapart.com/article/flat-ui-and-forms

NASA Shoots Lasers at the Moon to Create Insanely Fast Internet

Very cool sci-fi technology today.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/nasa-internet-laser/

Watch 15 Awesome MS-DOS Viruses in Action

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/15-awesome-looking-viruses-from-the-ms-dos-era/?viewall=true

There's One Key Difference Between Kids who Excel at Math and Those who Don't

And it’s not what you think. Turns out almost anyone can do well at math.
http://qz.com/139453/theres-one-key-difference-between-kids-who-excel-at-math-and-those-who-dont/

12 Basic Principles of Animation

From a book about Disney animation, ideas to understand and improve your animations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation

You Don’t Need Millions of Dollars

To create online games. A neat history of an important game from way back in time, Doom. Learn about shareware and hacker ethics, too.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/you-dont-need-millions-of-dollars.html

The Ultimate Tablet Comparison Chart, with the New iPads

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/the-ultimate-tablet-comparison-chart-with-the-new-ipads/

Fly Through 17th Century London

http://londonist.com/2013/10/fly-through-17th-century-london.php

Microduino: An Arduino nearly as small as a quarter, for $20

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/microduino-an-arduino-nearly-as-small-as-a-quarter-for-20/

Innovative monstrosity: Oracle makes tablet with Raspberry Pi and Java

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/innovative-monstrosity-oracle-makes-tablet-with-raspberry-pi-and-java/

The Beautiful Code

A Braille system to teach math and science to the blind.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-beautiful-code/280216/

Microsoft Reportedly Looking To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices, Starting With HTC

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/microsoft-reportedly-looking-to-put-windows-phone-on-android-devices-starting-with-htc/

Hotel Wi-Fi Sucks: Create Your Own Hotspot Using the Room’s Ethernet Connection

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/tnhyui-hotel-wifi/

Hotwiring the future of in-car tech with a smartphone and Raspberry Pi

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/hotwiring-the-future-of-in-car-tech-with-a-smartphone-and-raspberry-pi/

Edgar Allan Poe’s Debut: Hidden in Plain Sight?

Adventures with a software program to compare texts to determine authorship, in this case early stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/edgar-allan-poe-earliest-stories-language-software-investigation.html

17th Century Pocket Watch

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/09/17th-Century-Pocket-Watch/

Denied for that loan? Soon you may thank online data collection

Data collection can become discrimination. But you’ll never know it’s happening.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520131/data-discrimination-means-the-poor-may-experience-a-different-internet/
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/denied-for-that-loan-soon-you-may-thank-online-data-collection/