Kids Code & Computer Science

Links from the bottom of all the April 2021 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

The Imposters Among Us

Among Us

https://innersloth.com/gameAmongUs.php

Among Us on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/Among_Us/

How to play Among Us

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/among-us-heres-how-to-play-everyones-game-obsession-online-this-holiday-season/

Potential Imposter websites

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-takes-aim-at-potential-imposter-websites-with-new-chrome-warning/

Imposter Websites are among us

https://mansimedia.com/imposter-websites-are-among-us/

How to spot online imposters

https://www.opploans.com/blog/8-tips-to-spot-an-online-imposter/

What is astroturfing

https://www.bigcommerce.com/ecommerce-answers/what-is-astroturfing/

What is astroturfing in politics?

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-astroturfing-definition-and-examples-5082082

Oxford Computational Propaganda Project

https://credibilitycoalition.org/credcatalog/project/oxford-computational-propaganda-project/

Misinformation and the Corona Virus

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/misinformation-and-the-coronavirus-resistance/

Spotting Fake News

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-to-spot-fake-news-and-teach-kids-to-be-media-savvy

Identifying fake news

https://whyy.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nmlit17-ela-idfakenews/identifying-fake-news/

How Did Computers Get Here?

Eniac

https://www.britannica.com/technology/ENIAC

How to use an Abacus video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRyKYmOJwM

Abacus

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/abacus.html

Napier’s Bones

http://woollythoughts.com/napier.html

John Napier’s Bones

http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/napier/jimsnewstuff/Napiers%20Bones/NapiersBones.html

Blaise Pascal

https://www.educalc.net/196488.page

How the Pascaline works – video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h71HAJWnVU

The Slide Rule

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/10/22/356937347/the-slide-rule-a-computing-device-that-put-a-man-on-the-moon

History of the Slide Rule

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-slide-rule-1992408

Logic Machines

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/logic-machines

Human Computers: Women at Nasa

https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa

Women in coding

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html

Altair 8800

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334396

Altair 8800 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwEmnfy2BhI

What is Quantum Computing?

A programming language for quantum computers

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/silq-is-a-new-high-level-programming-language-for-quantum-computers

Silq programming language

https://www.futurity.org/silq-quantum-computers-programming-language-2390572/

Quantum Programming

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

Quantum Computing video

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/nordic-msp/quantum-computing-kids-understand/

Quantum Computers

https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-computers

15 Things to know about Quantum Computing

https://www.bernardmarr.com/default.asp?contentID=1193

Mind-boggling facts about quantum computers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/02/23/20-mind-boggling-facts-about-quantum-computing-everyone-should-read/?sh=25c31405edb7

Quantum Computing

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/quantum-computing-for-the-qubit-curious/

What is a Qubit

http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Qubit

Quantum Computer Facts for Kids

https://kids.kiddle.co/Quantum_computer

Quantum activity pack

https://qiskit.org/activities/quantum-activity-pack-for-kids.pdf

Quantum Computer takes huge step

https://newsforkids.net/articles/2019/10/31/googles-quantum-computer-takes-huge-step/

Soldering 101

How to Solder

https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/learning-toolkit-blog/kid-maker-how-to-solder.html

Soldering for kids

http://learningtostem.com/soldering-for-kids-guide-for-parents-and-teachers/

Teach your kids to solder

https://medium.com/breadboardeaux/you-should-teach-your-kids-to-solder-45de6c15385b

What is solder

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

How to Solder

https://www.makerspaces.com/how-to-solder/

Used for your soldering iron

https://chandlertool.com/10-different-uses-for-your-soldering-iron/

Soldering facts

https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Solder

History of soldering

https://sudonull.com/post/28311-How-it-all-began-the-history-of-the-soldering-iron-and-the-advent-of-modern-tools

The History of the Soldering Iron

https://katastros.com/a?ID=81d87366-cc6c-439a-a42d-d9ab54a4a329

Tour your Art Museum!

Walking through a model

https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/walking-through-model

Make walk-throughs in Sketchup

https://www.dummies.com/programming/google-sketchup/make-walkthroughs-sketchup/

The Emoji Generator

Emoji Generator (Conditionals) Program

https://repl.it/@brivera/EmojiConditionals

Emoji Generator (Switch Statements) Program

https://repl.it/@brivera/EmojiSwitchStatements

Emojis for the Web (Reference Chart)

https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_emoji_smileys.asp

JavaScript Conditions

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_if_else.asp

JavaScript Switch Statements

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_switch.asp

What’s that Bird?

eBird

https://ebird.org/home

How to use e-Bird

https://www.audubon.org/news/how-use-ebird

How to use e-Bird

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/landtrust/how-to-use-ebird/

E-Bird hot spots

https://evergreenaudubon.org/nature-conservation/local-birding/ebird-hotspots-cool-spots-and-notspots/

Citizen Science: Bird Count

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/citizen-science-be-part-of-something-bigger/

How to Count Birds

https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-count-birds-386687

Backyard bird count printable

https://www.shareitscience.com/2017/02/free-bird-counting-printable-great-backyard-bird-count.html

Christmas bird count

https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/solve/conservation/christmas-bird-count.php

Why Should we Count Birds

https://www.elmwoodparkzoo.org/why-should-we-count-birds/

Estimate of Bird Species in the world

https://www.amnh.org/about/press-center/new-study-doubles-the-estimate-of-bird-species-in-the-world

Great Backyard Bird Count

https://www.birdcount.org/

Bird Count

https://www.amazon.com/Bird-Count-Susan-Edwards-Richmond/dp/1561459542

Make Pixel Art

The history of Pixel Art

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/pixel-art-sites/

Piskel

https://www.piskelapp.com/

The Noun Project

https://thenounproject.com/

Scratch

https://thenounproject.com/

Pixel Art, past, present, and future

https://www.theverge.com/2014/7/3/5865849/pixel-art-is-here-to-stay

Pixel Art Tutorial

https://medium.com/pixel-grimoire/how-to-start-making-pixel-art-2d1e31a5ceab

How to make Pixel Art

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/pixel-art.html

Pixel art examples

https://www.creativebloq.com/illustration/examples-pixel-art-2132036

Pixel Art Maker

http://pixelartmaker.com/

Pixel Art Pictures

http://www.forkids.land/pixel-art-pictures/

Pixel Art History

Roy Lichtenstein

https://www.moma.org/artists/3542

Lichtenstein art

https://www.wikiart.org/en/roy-lichtenstein

Georges Seurat

https://www.georgesseurat.org/

Seurat history for kids

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/artists/georges_seurat.php

7 things to know about Pointilism

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/pointillism-7-things-you-need-to-know

Chuck Close and Pointilism

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/420746

What is halftone?

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

Chuck Close Artwork

https://www.wikiart.org/en/chuck-close

Limor Fried

Profile of Limor Fried

https://www.forbes.com/profile/limor-fried/?sh=4727ff64eccb

About Adafruit

https://www.adafruit.com/about

Adafruit start-up

https://web.archive.org/web/20180430030829/http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/startups/how-diy-electronics-startup-adafruit-industries-became-a-multimillion-dollar-company

Limor Fried video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WtPv0yWek

How Limor Fried built a tech empire

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/how-limor-fried-built-a-diy-tech-empire/

How Adafruit grew

https://boldandopen.com/adafruit-case-study/

Female Tech Entrepreneurs

https://em360tech.com/business_agility/tech-news/top-ten/top-10-female-entrepreneurs

The Double Slit Experiment

Double-slit experiment explanation

https://plus.maths.org/content/physics-minute-double-slit-experiment-0

DIY double-slit experiment for light

https://www.instructables.com/Replicate-Youngs-Double-Slit-Experiment-at-Home/

Double-slit experiment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/09/18/this-one-experiment-reveals-more-about-reality-than-any-quantum-interpretation-ever-will/?sh=14277465c723

Weird double slit experiment

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22280/double-slit-experiment-even-weirder/

What happens when a particle of light knows it’s being watched

https://www.amberallen.com/uncategorized/watch-happens-particle-light-knows-watched/

Young’s Double Slit experiment video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz27jq4ATL4

Double-slit experiment

https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Young%27s_double-slit_experiment

Thomas Young

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Young

Wave-particle duality

https://kids.kiddle.co/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality

Daemons in my PC

An excerpt from the Unix System Administration Handbook

https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html

List of Unix daemons

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

Greek Daemons

https://www.britannica.com/topic/demon-Greek-religion

Daemon definitions and meaning

https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/daemon/

What are Daemons?

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computer_software)

Demons, Daemons and Daimons

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/demons-daemons-and-daimons/

Eudaemon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemon_(mythology)

Daemon Computer Fact for Kids

https://kids.kiddle.co/Daemon_(computer_software)

Daemon

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/da/Daemon

BBC Basics

Teach kids to code with BBC basic

https://www.alphr.com/features/389884/teach-kids-to-code-with-bbc-basic/

Write games for BBC Micro

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/learn-to-write-games-for-the-bbc-micro-with-eben/

BBC Micro history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgEzG7F5d8

Microcomputer History

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

BBC Micro Games Archive

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/archive/Games/platform-BBC%20Micro/

go to statement

http://www.david.tribble.com/text/goto.html

The BBC Basic entry at Rosetta Code

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:BBC_BASIC

The BBC Basic editor

https://bbcmic.ro

BBC micro bot website

https://www.bbcmicrobot.com

BBC Basic tutorial

https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/learn/index.html

The Small Internet

Rawtext website

https://rawtext.club

small pubnixes

https://tildeverse.org

SDF

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

What is SSH?

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/tools/ssh-secure-shell/

Command Line Program Definition

http://www.linfo.org/command_line_program.html

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

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

Perfect time to revisit IRC

https://www.howtogeek.com/684735/why-2020-is-the-perfect-time-to-revisit-irc/

Online Communities for kids

https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/great-online-communities-for-kids

Safe online communities for kids

https://www.socialmoms.com/know/tech/social-media/online-social-community-for-young-kid/