An activity/colouring book for kids for indoctrinating them with geekyness. Mostly full of in-jokes and puns.
Description: Automata is a big word but a small idea, a tiny computer that works with pictures and rules.
Illustration: INSERT: 1-d Automata.
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Description: Benoit loved Nature, and took walks on the beach. He thought he could see how long it was. Unfortunately the closer he looked, the longer it took, and the more he inspected the more wobbly it got.
Illustration: fractals, duh
Activity: INSERT: Grid of numbers to colour in, numbers represent iteration count, and a fractal is drawn.
Description: CERN is a big big place to understand the world at the tiniest levels. They take tiny things and bang them together and see what happens.
Illustration: scene from CERN
Activity: find the Higgs boson
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Illustration: Lovelace and Babbage
Activity: INSERT: Spot the Difference.
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INSERT: Matching up/Drawing lines between ( and ), [ and ], { and }, if
and end if
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(A little instruction to say "Make the lines simple and clean, Edsger likes things to be neat!"
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Illustration: INSERT: A Golden rectangle to fill with rabbits.
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Illustration: Grace Hopper, the bug she found and holding a nanosecond.
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Illustration: scene from hackspace
Activity: but the book down and go hack something
Description: The internet is a series of tubes.
Illustration: spacecat and tubes
Activity: The cat in space, Cmdr Catfield needs help to find cat food.
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Description: Don loves computers and he loves books too. He wrote a book about computers, and wrote a programming language to write Books in. He then wrote a book about this programming language in the programming language to write Books.
Illustration: INSERT: Don on a Pipe Organ
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Activity: INSERT: Solving a maze by the left hand rule / Origami Turtle.
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Activity: INSERT: Multiplying numbers by counting grids/Geometric method.
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Description: Open source means sharing and working together. Octocats share their code on GitHub.
Illustration: INSERT: 8 or so Octocats
Activity: customise the octocats. This one is a Cowboy! This one is an Astronaut! This one is a Nurse! This one is a Teacher! This one is You!
Description: No! P is for Punch cards.
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Description: Recursion is breaking down problems into taking the first step, and how to move forwards.
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Activity: INSERT: Join the dots Koch Snowflake.
Description: FIXME
Illustration: INSERT: Sieve of Erastothenes
Activity: colour in numbers
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Illustration: INSERT: Turing eating an Icecream in the Park, With a rainbow in the sky.
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Illustration: INSERT: Raptors.
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Description: FIXME: Memex etc.
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Illustration: Woz on a segway
Activity: Woz has lost his phones! How many can you see?
Description: Cats can be fussy, but none as fussy as Xor and Nand Cat. I have two bowls for food or water, and I have to put the right things in.
Xor Cat will eat if I put water in one and food in the other.
Nand Cat will eat unless I put food in both.
Illustration: truth tables for cat food
Activity: INSERT: For each bowls, will Xor or Nand cat eat, or both?
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Illustration: A poodle-looking yak being shaved next to a bike shed. Plus a camel and a gnu and Larry in a Hawaiian shirt.
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Description: Computers are powerful because they are simple. They see the world in one and zero, and all numbers and letters can be converted to computers.
Illustration: INSERT: ASCII Table.
Activity: go back and check the page numbers!
Each page will be numbered from 65 onwards.
On each page there will be a simple 7 dot display i.e ●○○○○○●
If you flip the pages a glider will meander across the bottom.
- rickroll crossword
- TSP?
- P != NP
- penrose tiles