Conjuring with Computation

Paul Curzon

• 25 mei 2023
• 9789811264351

Samenvatting:

The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), brings you Conjuring with Computation: A Manual of Magic and Computing for Beginners. Develop your skills as a magician while also learning the basics of computer science by exploring its links to magic. Each chapter explains how to do a simple magic trick, step-by-step, then uses the trick to introduce linked fundamental ideas in computer science in a fun way.

By reading the book you will learn to do self-working tricks, be able to hold magic shows, create your own versions of tricks, and with creativity even invent your own. We cover:

The book includes profiles of computer scientists, alongside magicians with links to technology, through history.

Master conjuring and thinking computationally.

Contents:

• Chapter Summaries
• Introduction
• Algorithmic Thinking
• Evaluation and Logical Thinking I
• Making It Work for People
• Decomposition and Abstraction
• Procedures and Procedural Abstraction
• Building Bigger
• Abstraction and Data Representation
• Human–Computer Interaction
• Evaluation and Logical Thinking II
• More on Computational Thinking
• Cyber Security, Privacy and Society
• Advanced Technology
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgements
• Index of Computing Terms
• Index of Tricks, Illusions and Conjuring Techniques
• Index of People

Readership: General public: Those interested in learning how to do magic tricks and lay computing/mathematics/science including those visiting science and technology/computing museums. Those learning computer science subjects (at school or university) with an interest in magic.