Kids Code & Computer Science

Links from the bottom of all the December 2019 articles, collected in one place for you to print, share, or bookmark.

RACKET CHRISTMAS TREE

Racket Documentation

https://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpimage.html

Create Shapes and Colours with Racket

https://www.kidscodecs.com/shapes-colors-racket/

A Beginner-Friendly Intro into Functional Programming

https://codeburst.io/a-beginner-friendly-intro-to-functional-programming-4f69aa109569

Functional Programming Paradigm

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/functional-programming-paradigm/

Lambda Calculus

https://www.kidscodecs.com/lambda-calculus/

Declarative vs Imperative Programming

https://codeburst.io/declarative-vs-imperative-programming-a8a7c93d9ad2

SLOW LORIS

Slow Loris – Rethinking DoS Attacks

https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/slow-loris-rethinking-dos-attacks-bd1ca5091bfe

Computerphile: Slow Loris Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFkyR35v2Y

Computerphile: Denial of service attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDZS7iYNsA

What is a Slowloris attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)

Internet protocols

https://kids.kiddle.co/Internet_protocol_suite

Denial of Service Attacks

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-015

DoS and DDoS Attacks

https://www.cybrary.it/2018/07/types-of-dos-and-ddos-attacks/

HOW TO SECURE A NEW COMPUTER

AVG Antivirus

https://www.avg.com/

Kaspersky Free

https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/thank-you/free-antivirus-download

Avast

https://www.avast.com/

New Computer Set-up

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3040361/how-to-set-up-new-computer.htm

Installing Mac updates

https://www.wikihow.com/Check-for-and-Install-Updates-on-a-Mac-Computer

Importance of software updates

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-how-to-the-importance-of-general-software-updates-and-patches.htm

BARBED WIRE TELEPHONE

Hacking Barbed Wires

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/ridiculous-history-barbed-wire-fences-create-phone-lines.htm

Barbed Wire Entrepreneurship

https://www.perc.org/2011/02/24/barbed-wire-entrepreneurship/

DIY Telecom

https://www.rhizomatica.org/resources/

Uniting Homesteaders

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history

Satellite phones (Iridium blog)

https://www.iridium.com/blog/

Still not Wired

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140214-the-last-places-without-internet

Mobile Learning in India

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/06/05/mobile-learning-how-smartphones-help-illiterate-farmers-in-rural-india/

INTERVIEW: TAYLOR RICHARDSON

Taylor Richardson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-83Ygxmtk

Meet Taylor Richarson

https://www.lottie.com/blogs/blog/aspiring-astronaut-meet-12-year-old-taylor-richardson

Steam Squad Taylor Richardson

http://www.thesteamsquad.org/TaylorRichardson.html

Hidden Figures White House Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyP4g3CxG7g

Twitter

https://twitter.com/astrostarbright/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/astroStarBright

PYTHON RAINBOW

Nested loops in Python

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_nested_loops.htm

The termcolor library

https://pypi.org/project/termcolor/”

Using ASCII escape codes to add color in Python

http://ozzmaker.com/add-colour-to-text-in-python/”

CODING CRITTERS

Coding Critters Review

https://www.thetoyinsider.com/coding-critters-toy-review/

Stem Coding Play

https://mummywishes.com/coding-critters-review-stem-coding-play/

Coding Critters Review

http://www.thenewhousefamily.co.uk/toy-reviews/coding-critters-review/

Motion planning

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

BIRD HOUSE

Build a bird house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHf-VTiNieI

Sketchup for School lesson plan

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A3AWZkckueVdhZECOCm2S2r8KgZOraQno8qs9lz6k3k/edit#slide=id.

STEM birdhouse

http://birdhouse.thinkport.org

Virtual Birdhouse build-a-thon

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/keystone-science-school-hosts-virtual-birdhouse-build-a-thon-as-part-of-girls-in-stem-program/”

Women Pioneers in Virtual Reality

https://usa2018.augmentedworldexpo.com/ar-vr-women-pioneers/

History of virtual reality

https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/history.html

VR and the future

https://datafloq.com/read/5-types-virtual-reality-affect-the-future/4030

Parents guide

https://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/gaming/virtual-reality-gaming-virtual-reality-how-much-does-it-cost-and-is-it-safe-11364193115313

10 best

https://www.codemom.ai/vr-headsets-kids-teens/

History of VR

https://www.codemom.ai/vr-headsets-kids-teens/

Virtual Realty history timeline

https://virtualspeech.com/blog/history-of-vr

Virtual Reality Tech Uses

https://www.livescience.com/53392-virtual-reality-tech-uses-beyond-gaming.html

SCRATCH SPACE GAME

Creating a racing game in stratch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAzYvOns04

Two-player racing game

https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/How_to_Make_a_Two-Player_Racing_Game

Motion, looks, sound in scratch

https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/working-with-motion-looks-and-sound-in-scratch–cms-24224

Adding sounds to scratch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGJd3pQbD0″

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FOR KIDS

Waicy

https://www.readyai.org/waicy/

Teaching kids about AI

https://www.iste.org/explore/artificial-intelligence/teaching-kids-what-ai-and-isnt

AI Facts

https://kids.kiddle.co/Artificial_intelligence

Kids teach AI humanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4KLjqH19as

Guide to AI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1740916372/the-complete-guide-to-artificial-intelligence-for

Coginimates

http://cognimates.me/home/

Machine-based learning

http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/scratch-based-machine-learning.html

VISUAL STORYTELLING APPS

Steller

https://steller.co/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/steller/id785128002?mt=8

Pixotale

http://pixotale.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id866275871?mt=8
http://
http://robertmao.com

1 Second Everyday

http://1secondeveryday.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1-second-everyday/id587823548?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.touchlab.android.onesecondeveryday

Introducing LEGO StoryStarter

https://education.lego.com/en-us/downloads/retiredproducts/storystarter/software
http://education.lego.com/en-us/learn/elementary/storystarter

REVIEW: Hands-on with LEGO StoryStarter

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-03-12-review-hands-on-with-lego-storystarter

Apps and Sites for Storytelling

https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/apps-and-sites-for-storytelling

Top 5 Storytelling Tools

http://www.submarinechannel.com/top-5s/top-5-storytelling-tools/

3 Free iOS Apps for Visual Storytelling

https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/3-free-ios-apps-for-visual-storytelling/s2/a557753/

How to Tell Your Story without Boring Your Audience to Tears

http://goinswriter.com/tell-story/

The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains

http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

How to Tell a Story Well

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/how-to-tell-a-story-well.aspx
http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/storytelling-tips-zmaz81sozraw.aspx

WAYBACK MACHINE

The Wayback Machine

https://archive.org/web/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

The Internet Archive

https://archive.org/about/
https://archive.org/projects/

The Console Living Room

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom

MS-DOS Game Collection

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2

Children’s Library

https://archive.org/details/iacl

The Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/

Open Educational Resources

https://archive.org/details/education

Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s Job

https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351

HOW TO DO ONLINE RESEARCH

Online Research Techniques

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/navigatingthenet/tp/How-to-Properly-Research-Online.htm
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/1/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/552/02/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Become an Expert Google Searcher in One Hour

A free online seminar from O’Reilly by Stephan Spencer and Nancy Blachman.
http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2923
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=683389&s=1&k=6B52DEB19D27657F84CD48BDA6313265

Google Guide

http://googleguide.com/
http://googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

Search Engines

http://www.google.com
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
http://code.google.com
http://www.bing.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.duckduckgo.com
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
http://www.looksmart.com
http://stackexchange.com/
http://stackoverflow.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.completeplanet.com
http://archive.org/
http://www.wikipedia.org
http://www.ipl.org
http://www.refdesk.com/

Online Research Course Material

https://sites.google.com/site/micdlir/irt-lesson-examples
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtaWNkbGlyfGd4OjEyZjkyNmQ1NjMwYTVkMTU
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtaWNkbGlyfGd4OjEzMmJmMDlhNzE3OWI4OA

Tools for Online Research

http://www.addthis.com/
http://getpocket.com
http://evernote.com/
https://trello.com/

BITS AND VIDEO GAME HISTORY

Sega and Nintendo Console War: Greatest Moments

https://primagames.com/feature/15-greatest-moments-sega-and-nintendo-16-bit-console-war

What Is a Bit?

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/bit-binary-digit

Definition of Power in Maths

https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/power.html

IOT AND SCHOOLS

IoT For All

https://www.iotforall.com/introduction-iot-applications-in-education/

Towards Data Science

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-iot-is-going-to-revolutionize-education-industry-f6ea952e9669

Medium

https://medium.com/sciforce/internet-of-things-in-the-world-of-school-15492e3e2a90

ALGORITHMIC MUSIC

Gibber: an in-browser live coding system

https://gibber.cc/

Supercollider

https://supercollider.github.io/

FoxDot

https://foxdot.org/

The book on the topic of Algorithmic Music

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190226992

CAVES OF QUD

Kate Compton’s introduction to procgen

https://galaxykate0.tumblr.com/post/139774965871/so-you-want-to-build-a-generator

The pronoun generator mod in Qud that’s being used to prototype the final version

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735379738

The roguelike dev reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/

Seeds magazine

http://www.procjam.com/seeds/

A talk Jason Grinblat gave on text generation in Qud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUjW5zlgeoQ

RANDOMNESS

The HotBits site, for getting random data from radioactive sources

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Another source of truly random data

https://www.random.org/

A cool article on how to take weak sources of randomness and turn them into something way more useful

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-randomness-with-linuxs-random-number-generator/