book review – computer science

The Programmer’s* Survival Guide Career Strategies for Computer Professionals by Janet Ruhl

*the word programmer will be used to refer to people whose jobs include systems analysis, systems design, program development, coding, testing, and maintenance Janet Ruhl Career beings in 1980 in IBM applications as a Manufacturing Applications Programmer then as an Electronic Data System Technical Support Programmer Worked: In five different cities for different geographical sectionsContinue reading “The Programmer’s* Survival Guide Career Strategies for Computer Professionals by Janet Ruhl”

Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (3/4)

Part 3 – Mind and World Knowing, Thinking, and Representing Formalizing the ‘No Information Without Data Representation’ Principle BY Patrick Allo The Computer as Cognitive Artifact and Simulator of Worlds BY Philip Brey There are two philosophical relationships (functional and phenomenal relationships) between humans and computers that make up a cognitive device and anContinue reading “Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (3/4)”

Helping Kids With Coding For Dummies by Camille McCue and Sarah Guthals

What kids learn when they code (8 to 9) Computational thinking When we’re able to critically analyze the problem and solution to form a process Algorithmic thinking Being able to set out a process in order to perform a task Communication in a foreign language Learning a computer language is the same as aContinue reading “Helping Kids With Coding For Dummies by Camille McCue and Sarah Guthals”

Life and Code of Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman

Panic Sweeps the United States in 1999 (A.K.A Y2K) The situation: Computers could handle dates with the years represented by two digits, for example, 98 for 1998. And, 99 for 1999…then comes 2000 when machines will see the year as 00 (56 to 57) Jim Fullers’ mindset: A colleague of Ullman’s as he spent mostContinue reading “Life and Code of Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman”

Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (2/4)

Part 2 Living With the Golem Robots and Autonomous Agents Can a Robot Intentionally Conduct Mutual Communication with Human Beings? BY Kayoko ISHII “Monkey see, monkey do” a.k.a social reference (39). If social reference is one of the factors that determine mutual communication between human beings, and if A.I. be socially aware through theContinue reading “Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (2/4)”

Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (1/4)

Edited by Adam Briggle, Catinca Welbers, Phillip Bray I will just be going over these significant points presented in each of these philosophical articles These aren’t works that I would automatically grab my interest if I just came home after school, work, or a day I wanted to cozy up in bed with a pageContinue reading “Current issues in Computing and Philosophy (1/4)”

Artificial Intelligence, Building Smarter Machines by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Alan Turing – developed the Turing test which consists of a person giving a question an receiving an answer from a human being and a computer. If the questioner can’t determine which answer came from either the human or the computer then we can assume that the machine is intelligent 9 Examples of artificialContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence, Building Smarter Machines by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson”

Code Your Own Website by Basher, and TheCoderSchool

Summary: TheCoderSchool, a Silicon Valley based after-school drop-off program for kids learning to code, teams up with Basher to create personifications of the Internet. More specifically, personifications of the tools used behind the scenes of the Internet. This book will show you how to make a website through step-by-step processes that build on each other’sContinue reading “Code Your Own Website by Basher, and TheCoderSchool”