SacredChaos: Learning Projects: Wonderful World Of Computers<title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/enciclopedia_esquematica.css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <center> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td height="50" background="/images/bluetech.gif"> <div class="banner">Wonderful World Of Computers</div> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <table width="100%">  <tr> <td class="navigation"> [ <a href="/index.html">Main</a> ] [ <a href="/home/index.html">Home</a> ] [ <a href="/work/index.html">Work</a> ] [ <a href="/code/index.html">Code</a> ] [ <a href="/rants/index.html">Rants</a> ] [ <a href="/readings/index.html">Readings</a> ] [ <a href="/links/index.html">Links</a> ] </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="intro"> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="36%"> <hr> </td> <td width="64%"> <hr> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="36%" valign="top"> <p> <div class="update">{Latest update: 24 February 2008}</div> </p> <div class="index"> <p> <ol> <li><a href="#what_is_computing">What Is Computing?</a></li> </ol> </p> </div> </td> <td class="bodytext" width="64%" valign="top"> <a name="what_is_computing"></a> <div class="section">What Is Computing?</div> <div class="bodytext"> <p> <ul> <li>Presentation (<a href="wonderful_world_of_computers/01-What_Is_Computing.odp">OpenOffice</a>) (<a href="wonderful_world_of_computers/01-What_Is_Computing.pdf">PDF</a>)</li> <li>Resources:</li> <ul> <li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware">History of Computing Hardware</a></li> <li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation">Computation</a></li> <li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus">Abacus</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/">Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/lego/">LEGO abacus</a></li> </ul> <li>Exercises:</li> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/java/AbacusApp.html">Online abacus</a> (Java applet)</li> </ul> </ul> </p> <a name="resources"></a> <div class="section">Resources</div> <div class="bodytext"> <p> Programming environments: <ul> <li><a herf="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_programming_language">Educational programming languages</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kidslike.info/computer_programming_educational_programming_languages">Computer programming: educational programming languages</a> (KidsLike.info)</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)">Scratch</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software)">Alice</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSheets">AgentSheets</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfoot">Greenfoot</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_programming_language">Logo</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>