The Man Who Turned Paper into Pixels
A short video introducing the work of Claude Shannon.Tags: cs4teachers, spring 2019, cshistory, Claude Shannon
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Joy Lisi Rankin: "A People's History of Computing in the United States" | Talks at Google
A talk given at Google by Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin on her book, A People's History of Computing in the United States.Tags: cs4teachers, spring 2019, cshistory
Brian Dear: " The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO [...]" | Talks at Google
Brian Dear has written a terrific book, The Friendly Orange Glow, about an unfortunately little known learning platform, PLATO. In this video, he tells the PLATO story.Tags: cs4teachers, spring 2019, cshistory, PLATO
When CS in Education Historians Collide
Too often in education, we find ourselves looking for THE answer. This bookmark is a portal into a debate between two historians of CS in Education, Brian Dear and Joy Lisi Rankin. Please read this article and the ones to which it refers. Here is Dear's description of the sequenc...Tags: cs4teachers, spring 2019, cshistory, PLATO, dear, rankin
It's Alan Kay's World, We Just Live In It
It's Alan Kay's world, we are just living in it. We will do some reading, watch some video, and do some programming. And all of it starts with Alan Kay. Kay was a key architect of what became the first personal computer. His work led to windows based GUIs (which inspired both St...Tags: cs4teachers, spring 2019, cshistory, Kay
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How Bees Keep Warm on Hot Days
The science of this is cool (no pun intended), but I also thing this Woukd be a neat phenomenon to model via code or robotics.Tags: cs4teachers, cshistory, coolthings