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As part of my lock down, I’m determined to improve my knowledge when I get back to leading my department and teaching in-front of students (instead of behind a screen as I am doing now). One of things I’m trying to do is read more…
As a birthday present to myself, I bought myself a used Kindle of eBay. Wow, why didn’t I do this before? It has revolutionised my time in lock down and vastly increased the amount of fiction and non-fiction I’m reading. My first non-fiction read was…
These are my notes from the book How to Design Programs available online here, using Racket and the Beginner Student Language (BSL) which is lot like the Scheme dialect of LISP. Look at Part 1 here. Prologue Part 2 Most of the code is commented out so…
These are my notes from the book How to Design Programs available online here, using Racket and the Beginner Student Language (BSL) which is lot like the Scheme dialect of LISP. Prologue Most of the code is commented out so I can run the latest…
I recently stumbled across a brilliant podcast series called Computing Britain from the BBC. The first episode is the role Britain took in developing electronic memory, or “Electronic Brains“. It was originally from the BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign that brought us the Micro:bit. It…
Full Adder It’s take 1 year and 18 days for me to write the second part of this post about how to create a Full Adder. I originally wrote a post that demonstrated how to create a half adder logic circuit from simple logic statements…
Critical Thinking One thing that has bothered me recently, is how little I know about the real world. How little I understand of the arguments of politicians, scientists and journalists. This has led me to believe that I need to develop my ability to think…
Having worked from home for nearly a month now due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve started to realise a few things about my attention. Looking back My attention span is shocking. Terribly bad. Thinking back to my (short) school career, every report had a section…
Well, the world is changing. Cornavirus is spreading and forcing people to really re-evaluate what is important. Having an outlet for my thinking is an important part of me staying positive and healthy in times which are anything but positive and healthy. I do think…
I’ve been meaning for a long time to start learning about some of the fundamentals of Computer Science and have recently got very interested in Computing history. Whether it is the story of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly and their work on ENIAC or…