August 2019 Learn More Links
Links from the bottom of all the August 2019 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.
Fritzing
Fritzing.org
Introduction to Fritzing
Fritzing tutorial
https://www.instructables.com/id/Fritzing-A-Tutorial/
Creating your own parts
https://www.instructables.com/id/Fritzing-Creating-Your-Own-Parts/
LED Blink with Fritzing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJ2etXqTKc
Fritzing diagrams
https://www.pinterest.com/randomnerdtutorials/arduino-schematics-fritzing-diagrams/
Custom parts for Fritzing
https://thecustomizewindows.com/2019/03/how-to-create-custom-parts-for-fritzing/
Citizen Science Projects
Citizen Science.gov
https://www.citizenscience.gov/#https://www.citizenscience.gov/#
SciStarter Citizen Science
https://scistarter.org/citizen-sciencehttps://scistarter.org/citizen-science
Amazing citizen scientist projects
https://www.kcedventures.com/blog/12-amazing-citizen-scientist-projects-for-kids
Kids make great citizen scientists
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/kids-make-great-citizen-scientists
Six citizen science projects
http://simplegreenorganichappy.com/2016/05/6-citizen-science-projects-for-2016-for-kids/
Money saving citizen science projects
https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/citizen-science-projects/
Jordan Reeves: Prosthetic Arm with a Glitter Cannon
Jordan Reeves videos
Born Just Right
Steam Squad Jordan Reeves
https://newzhook.com/story/21839http://www.thesteamsquad.org/JordanReeves.html
Project Unicorn
https://newzhook.com/story/21839
Unicorn Prosthetic
Nothing can stop her
https://sn4.scholastic.com/issues/2018-19/020419/nothing-can-stop-her.html#On%20Level
Jordan Reeves video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gBP2BbalNM
Games before CD and HDMI
Download Radio Games
https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
Loading retrogames on tape on C64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHW-f5ayhs
Remembering Commodore 64
https://www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/commodore-64-3274430
When games used to be downloaded from the radio
https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
Downloading games from the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html
How do Driverless Cars See?
How do driverless cars work
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/how-do-driverless-cars-work/
Driverless cars of the future
Waymo
Waymo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
Driveless cars advantages and disadvantages
https://axleaddict.com/safety/Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-Driverless-Cars
Driverless car technology
Smart City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
Driverless cars and smart cities
http://theconversation.com/driverless-cars-are-forcing-cities-to-become-smart-94707
Driverless cars and smart cities
https://www.richardvanhooijdonk.com/en/blog/driverless-cars-smart-cities/
Driverless cars and smart cities
https://www.befutureready.com/ezine-article/no-drivers-wanted-driverless-cars-smart-city/
What’s a Day Zero Virus?
Virus definition
https://techterms.com/definition/virus_definition
How does an anti-virus work?
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001738.htm
Zero-day virus definition
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/29740/zero-day-virus
Zero day vulnerabilities
Zero Day
https://www.avast.com/c-zero-day
Top ten anti-virus sites
https://antivirus.thetop10sites.com/h
What is Stuxnet
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3218104/what-is-stuxnet-who-created-it-and-how-does-it-work.html
What is zero day exploit?
https://www.howtoremoveit.info/what-is-zero-day-exploit/
Creepy Faces in SketchUp
Happy Halloween
https://danieltal.com/happy-halloween/
ModelMetricks for teachers
http://www.3dvinci.net/forteachersmodelmetricks.htm
Sketchup mosaics
https://danieltal.com/sketchup-mosaics/
Scratch Explorables
Explorable explanation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorable_explanation
HTML5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
What is HTML5
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&p=what+is+html5#id=3&vid=8e5fde2caa4d71c2fa1e189d461a3de0&action=click”>https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&p=what+is+html5#id=3&vid=8e5fde2caa4d71c2fa1e189d461a3de0&action=click
Squeak Tutorial
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Squeak_Tutorial
Scratch, Squeak, Alice and Go
STEAM Lab Jr
My Steam Labs
http://www.mysteamlabs.org/http://www.mysteamlabs.org/http://www.mysteamlabs.org/
Stem Jr. Little Tykes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjNYmhuOFk
Steam education games
https://www.steamcraftedu.com/steam-education-games-kids-should-play/
Kindergarten Stem Activities
https://thestemlaboratory.com/kindergarten-stem-activities/
25 steam projects
https://babbledabbledo.com/25-steam-projects-for-kids/
Science experiments and activities
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/science-experiments-and-activities/
Stem activities for kids
https://thestemlaboratory.com/stem-activities-for-kids/
Idris
Whitespace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_language%29
Whitespace programming
https://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/whitespace-programming/
Bizarre Programming languages
https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/10-most-bizarre-programming-languages-ever-created–net-2412
Idris
https://wiki2.org/en/Idris_(programming_language)
Dependently Typed programming
https://medium.com/click-travel/why-you-should-care-about-dependently-typed-programming-2f7a409f31c0
Dependently Typed Languages
https://www.slant.co/topics/10466/~dependently-typed-languages
Idris website and tutorial
https://www.idris-lang.org/ http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/index.html
The Idris book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26331996-type-driven-development-with-idris
Curry-Howard isomorphism: the thing that connects types and logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence
Martin-Löf Type Theory
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/book/book.pdf
Scratch and Motion
Doing Physics with Scratch
Scratch – Velocity
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Velocity
Movement in Scratch
https://breakoutmentors.com/advanced-movement-in-scratch-acceleration-and-velocity/
Simulating Gravity
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Simulating_Gravity
Racing Game in Scratch
https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Racing-Game-in-Scratch
Programming velocity
http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2014/03/Programming-velocity-and-speed-in-Scratch
Types
Statically typed – definition
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/22321/statically-typed
Statically vs. Dynamically typed languages
https://hackernoon.com/statically-typed-vs-dynamically-typed-languages-e4778e1ca55
Kids’ Programming Languages
https://www.lifewire.com/kids-programming-languages-4125938
Type systems
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/04/introduction-to-programming-type-systems/
Graphics Cards
Best graphics cards
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-graphics-cards/ pcgamer.com/the-best-graphics-cards/
Graphics hardware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_hardware
Find Out What Graphics Card you have
https://www.wikihow.com/Find-Out-What-Graphics-Card-You-Have
What is frame buffer
http://ecomputernotes.com/computer-graphics/basic-of-computer-graphics/what-is-frame-buffer
Graphics book
http://math.hws.edu/graphicsbook/c7/s4.html
Pixel definition?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pixel
What are Pixels
What is a pixel?
http://www.newtechnologysite.com/graphics/what_is_pixel.html
Pixel Video
3D graphics
https://www.lifewire.com/graphics-cards-3d-graphics-834089
foo bar baz
Google Foobar Challenge
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-foobar-challenge-googles-hidden-test-for-developers-ed8027c1184
Foobar
http://irislee.github.io/blog/2013/10/17/what-is-foobar/
Foo Camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp
Metasyntactic Variable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
Jargon
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/plactext.htm
Dogfooding
Eat Your Own Dogfood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
https://web.archive.org/web/20080621080007/http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5047467.html
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2006/03/s3005.html
What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000012.html
al-Jazari Automatons
al-Jazari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Al-Jazari
Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Elephant Clock
http://www.1001inventions.com/media/video/clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_clock
1001 Inventions
An award=winning science and cultural heritage organization that raises awareness of the golden age of Muslim civilization, including the creations of al-Jaziri.
http://1001inventions.com/
http://www.1001inventions.com/libraryofsecrets
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Also In The August 2019 Issue
Practical resources and tips to get kids engaged in STEAM from an early age.
Explore the world, spend time with family and friends, and shed some light on the secrets of nature!
Put the digital world aside and go back to the days of analog circuits with this cool open source application.
Make your sprite’s motion more realistic by adding acceleration and gravity to your code!
These three strange words keep popping up in coding tutorials. What’s their story?
Interactive play is a great way for students to learn STEM concepts, and new web technologies are making this easier than ever.
Meet the STEAM star who’s combining activism, innovation, and collaboration to build a better world — with sparkles!
Eating dog food doesn't sound like much fun but it's an important part of creating software.
Transform ordinary smiling faces into something kooky and unique with this fun SketchUp activity.
Learn what your antivirus software does, and why it’s important to keep it updated.
Driverless cars could mean less traffic and less accidents, but their developers have some challenges to solve.
A long time ago, before the internet, games were stored on cassette tapes — just like music! Well, Sort of.
We might think robots are a modern invention. But al-Jazari created amazing automatons in the thirteenth century. Today we would call him a maker.
This spiffy new programming language combines the best of typed and untyped languages.
Why does your computer need special hardware to render graphics? And what’s the deal with all those pixels, anyways?
A quick primer to the ins and outs of typed vs untyped programming languages.
Links from the bottom of all the August 2019 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.
Interesting stories about computer science, software programming, and technology for August 2019.
