Kids Code & Computer Science

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

Art and Computing

Margaret boden

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

Margaret boden interview

https://www.ibm.com/watson/advantage-reports/future-of-artificial-intelligence/margaret-boden.html

Computers take art in new directions

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/11/4760

Association for Computational Creativity

https://computationalcreativity.net/home/about/computational-creativity/

AI and the Art of Ingenuity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1200kMl4A

AARON

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

Get Started with Pico Boards

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-the-pico/2

How to set up pico with thonny

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

Thonny set-up

https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-libraries-on-micropython-using-the-raspberry-pi-pico/thonny-setup

Thonny

https://thonny.org/

Raspberry Pi Pico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLH-HNza44

Beam Me a Soda

IoT and Sports: A World of Possibilities

https://www.iotforall.com/iot-in-sports-a-world-of-possibilities

Smart sports stadiums are coming

https://www.objectstyle.com/machine-learning/smart-stadiums-are-coming

IoT in Sports

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/pl/Documents/Reports/pl-raport-internet-of-things-sports-eng.pdf

Connected Football System

https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/labs/connected-football-system

Tracky sportswear assesses performance

https://newatlas.com/tracky-motion-sensing-sportswear/36023/

How 5g is revolutionizing sports

https://business.blogthinkbig.com/smart-stadiums-how-5g-is-revolutionising-live-sports/

5 Tech Trends Transforming In-Stadium Experience

https://medium.com/fanfood-playbook/top-5-tech-trends-transforming-in-stadium-fan-experience-5195daac98fe

Sports Technology Trends 2021

https://www.coderus.com/sports-technology-trends-2021/

IoT in sports and gaming

https://www.embitel.com/blog/embedded-blog/how-iot-in-sports-and-gaming-has-world-of-endless-opportunities

IoT in sports transforming the field

https://www.healthworkscollective.com/heres-how-iot-in-sports-is-transforming-the-field/

Tottenham Hotspur’s Stadium

https://www.ns-businesshub.com/technology/tottenham-hotspur-stadium-technology/

Flower Power and Colossus

Wikipedia Colossus article

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

The Colossus Mark 1

https://www.planetanalog.com/colossus-mark-1/

Tommy flowers

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

The codebreakers of Bletchley Park

https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/thomas-flowers-code-breaker-wwii-colossus-machines

Tommy Flowers and Colossus

https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/tommy-flowers/

Tommy Flowers Facts for Kids

https://kids.kiddle.co/Tommy_Flowers

The history of Colossus Computer

https://history-computer.com/products/the-history-of-colossus-computer/

Early Electronic Computers

http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/computer50/www.computer50.org/mark1/contemporary.html

A brief history of encryption

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-security/magazine/brief-history-encryption

G Whiz 5G?

Analog vs Digital

https://www.guru99.com/analog-vs-digital.html

All the generations

http://net-informations.com/q/diff/generations.html

List of Mobile phone generations

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

What do 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G really mean

https://commsbrief.com/what-do-the-terms-1g-2g-3g-4g-and-5g-really-mean/

Mobile Wireless Communication Technology Journey

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mobile-wireless-communication-technology-journey-0g-mutabazi/

Which Country uses a 7G network?

https://www.crowdyhome.com/which-country-uses-a-7g-network/

What is 6g and how fast will it be?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-6g/

New iPhones part of 5g push

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-expected-unveil-new-iphones-part-5g-push-2021-09-14/

Key elements for 5g networks

https://www.sdxcentral.com/5g/definitions/key-elements-5g-network/

Explaining 5G to kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3Es8UhL-g

5g facts for kids

https://kids.kiddle.co/5G

What’s the Point?!

Why was ! chosen for negation?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/20085/why-was-chosen-for-negation

Operators in Computer Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(computer_programming)

Why is an exclamation mark called a bang?

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/62918/why-is-the-exclamation-mark-called-a-bang

Why punctuation is important while coding

https://wecancodeit.org/coding-bootcamp-code-hints-why-punctuation-is-important-while-coding/
Exclamation point

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/7089/exclamation-point

Textiles and Text files

The live coded loom project

https://penelope.hypotheses.org/1780

Computer controlled loom

https://youtu.be/Czun6yVpzp0

How punch cards for computers worked

https://youtu.be/KG2M4ttzBnY

An easy loom making project

https://portlandtextileclub.com/2018/11/05/making-the-box-loom/

History of the loom

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

Weaving in the ancient world

http://www.historyofclothing.com/making-clothing/history-of-weaving/

The Jacquard Loom

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/jacquard-loom

Power Loom

https://www.historycrunch.com/power-loom-invention-in-the-industrial-revolution.html#/

Weaving paved the way for computer coders

https://nyujournalismprojects.org/pixel/weaving-paved-the-way-for-computer-coders/

How industrial weaving gave us the computer (video)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180423-how-industrial-weaving-gave-us-the-computer

Women’s Work from weaving to computer programming

https://hyperallergic.com/523392/ahree-lee-womens-center-for-creative-work/

Weaving with computers

https://www.theartleague.org/blog/2013/08/02/weaving-with-computers/

Code Without a Computer

The Coding Workbook

https://nostarch.com/CodingWorkbook

Interview with Sam Taylor

https://nostarch.com/blog/womens-history-month-spotlight-deal-1

Conversations with Women in STEM: An Interview with Sam Taylor

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1122377/7184827

kids coding workbook

https://kidscodingworkbook.com/

Open Source Projects

Awesome for beginners

https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

Open source projects for beginners

https://www.upgrad.com/blog/open-source-projects-for-beginners/

How to get started with open source

https://www.hackerearth.com/getstarted-opensource/

How to contribute to open source projects: a beginner’s guide

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects-beginners-guide/

Top 8 open source projects for 2021

https://www.upgrad.com/blog/open-source-projects-for-beginners/

Top Source Code Repository Hosts

https://stackify.com/source-code-repository-hosts/

Trending c# repositories

https://github.com/trending/c%23

Top 23 C# open source projects

https://www.libhunt.com/t/c-sharp

Top 7 open source projects for beginners

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-7-open-source-projects-for-beginners-to-explore/

What’s Your Type?

Typography

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/typography-type-families-classifications-and-combining-typefaces/

About typeface families

https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-1/type-families/about-typeface-families

530 Typeface Ideas in 2021

https://www.pinterest.com/amberasay/typefaces/

Typeface vs. font

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/typeface-vs-font/

Best and worst fonts

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/the-best-and-worst-typefaces-and-why/

7 definitive worst fonts ever

https://www.illumine8.com/blog/the-7-definitive-worst-fonts-ever

The top easiest fonts to read

https://www.vistaprint.com/hub/design-decoded-top-12-easy-read-fonts?couponAutoload=1&GP=09%2f17%2f2021+16%3a29%3a55&GPS=6061734124&GNF=0

History of Typography

https://www.britannica.com/technology/typography/History-of-typography”

The evolution of typography

https://www.printmag.com/post/evolution-typography-history

7 Step Plan to being a typography expert

https://creativemarket.com/blog/7-step-plan-typography-expert?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MAR_G_Search_NB_CORE_Fonts_EM|BMM&utm_content=Fonts-General&utm_term=&gclid=CjwKCAjw-ZCKBhBkEiwAM4qfFzitPlUx9lxFS25h0c55Nxml8e6NYiWc3vPxm53jjnx2m6WCU73h2xoCDIUQAvD_BwE

9 best websites for free fonts online

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-fonts-sites-where-find-them/

Fabulous fonts trends for 2021

https://99designs.com/blog/trends/font-trends/

What are Keywords in Programming Languages?

Keywords and identifiers

https://www.programiz.com/c-programming/c-keywords-identifier

C keywords

https://www.educba.com/c-keywords/

Programming Visual Basic

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-visual-basic/0596000936/ch02s03.html

Reserved Word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_word”

C++ reserved words

http://www.umsl.edu/~lawtonb/224/oview2a.html

What it a reserved word?

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/reseword.htm

Reserved words: Real Python

https://realpython.com/lessons/reserved-keywords/

FRACTURING FAIRY TALES PROJECT PAGE

https://realpython.com/lessons/reserved-keywords/

SCRATCH ACTIVITY GUIDES

https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas

11 FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FOR YOUNG READERS

https://www.readbrightly.com/11-fractured-fairy-tales-young-readers/

HOW TO WRITE A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE (free eBook in Epic books!)

https://www.getepic.com/app/read/41830

Code with Pics in Pyret

Pyret Editor

https://code.pyret.org/

Bootstrap World Middle and High School Curriculum/Courses (Pyret-based)

https://bootstrapworld.org/

Why Pyret?

https://www.pyret.org/pyret-code/

Pyret Documentation

https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/A_Tour_of_Pyret.html

Pyret to Python

“https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0111/spring2020/docs/pyret-to-python.html

The Pyret Crew

https://www.pyret.org/crew/index.html

Lessons from Mars

Decomposition in problem-solving

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkcqn39/articles/z8ngr82

Decomposition in Computational thinking

https://equip.learning.com/decomposition-computational-thinking/

Decomposing math center activities

https://www.akteacherlife.com/decomposing-math-center-activities/

Pattern Recognition in Computational Thinking

https://equip.learning.com/pattern-recognition-computational-thinking/

Pattern Recognition: a key skill for computational thinking

https://medium.com/turing-ninjas/pattern-recognition-a-key-skill-for-computational-thinking-a8218bf3c3ae

Building a Mars Base

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w

Mars Habitat

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

How to Build a Mars Base

https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/how-to-build-a-mars-base-habitat/

How to build on Mars

https://constructible.trimble.com/construction-industry/spacex-to-mars-city-how-to-build-on-mars

Design for a space habitat

https://www.universetoday.com/147882/design-for-a-space-habitat-with-artificial-gravity-that-could-be-grown-larger-over-time-to-fit-more-people/

Making Houses on Mars

https://www.popsci.com/making-houses-on-mars/