More Information
The following links are to additional information that is useful to students in CSC 100 (The Beauty and Joy of Computing). These links are a few sources of information, but don't restrict yourself to just these links! Follow your curiosity! See what you can discover!
The Beauty and Joy Class
- UC Berkeley CS10: This is the Berkeley class that is the inspiration for our class. It's not exactly the same, but there are probably things at the Berkeley class that you would find interesting.
BYOB and Scratch
- The BYOB Web Site - contains a link and instructions for how to install on your own computer
- Scratch 1.4 Reference Guide - BYOB is an enhanced version of Scratch, and many of the basics are documents in the Scratch Reference Guide
- BYOB 3.1 Reference Manual - this is a PDF document, and focuses on the new features that BYOB adds to Scratch
- Musical live coding with Scratch - amazing video of someone creating music by making and "conducting" scratch scripts
Readings
- Blown To Bits - the web site for the Blown to Bits, including a full online copy
- Why Software is Eating the World - by Mark Andreessen
Information Relevant to Particular Class Topics/Modules
- Algorithms: TED Talk: How Algorithms Shape Our World - video of a presentation by Kevin Slavin at TED on ways we have become dependent on algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence Videos and Information
- General overview videos:
- IBM Watson: Final Jeopardy! and the Future of Watson (10:15)
- The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Andrew Ng) (16:27)
- Some interesting readings:
- What is IBM's Watson? - from the New York Times
- Computers Solve Checkers - from Scientific American
- Videos of some specific robots:
- Plen - skateboarding
- Plen - cleaning up
- Asimo - commercial
- Asimo - Sundance Film Festival
- Google Car - ABC News report
- Longer videos:
- NOVA episode - The Great Robot Race
- The Thinking Machine (episode of "The Machine that Changed the World")
- The "Singularity":
On Learning and College
- Richard Feynman on Education in Brazil - experiences of Richard Feynman, nobel prize winner in Physics (and all around interesting genius), on the education system in Brazil, and the difference between knowing facts and learning a subject