Lego Computer Science...Algorithms are core to computer science. So what is an algorithm? If you have ever used the instructions from a Lego set then you have followed algorithms for fun yourself and you have been a computational agent. Find out more ... cs4fn.blog/2025/09/26/l...

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY September 12 2017 Edie Schlain Windsor died. She was a senior systems engineer at IBM who led the case that made gay marriage legal in the US cs4fn.blog/2023/02/19/e...

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#ComputingByAllForAll - YESTERDAY September 9 1947 Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug (a moth) cs4fn.blog/2023/01/01/s...

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY September 10, 1955 Bonnie E. John born Human Computer Interaction expert Read about Cognitive Crash Test Dummies cs4fn.blog/2023/01/30/c...

My 2nd new strand of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social presented at #UKICER2025 on the problem of teaching skills (graduate, workplace, practical) with theory, visualising using the semantic plane, suggests should integrate with waves between theory and skills dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Today I presented 2 posters on new strands of work using Maton's LCT @lctcentre.bsky.social at #UKICER2025. The first was on the problem of ensuring students understand the 'rules of the game' in learning to program are (code quality matters) using the epistemic plane. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#ComputingByAllForAll - September 2 1815 Mary Edward dies Mary and Eliza Edwards: the mother and daughter human computers who helped sailors navigate at sea with their work over 50 years for the nautical almanac. Read about them at cs4fn.blog/2025/09/03/m...

#ComputingByAllForAll September is World Alzheimer’s month Freddie Figgers invented a GPS tracker shoe for those with Alzheimer’s disease. cs4fn.blog/2022/10/12/f...

Computer Science at Sea We think of computers and electronics generally as machines that must stay dry (not least because you can electrocute yourself ...don't do this at home!) but there are lots of ways that computer science is of help at, on, watching over or under the sea... cs4fn.blog/the-sea/

For many of us, the deep sea is a bit of a mystery. But an exciting interactive digital tool at the National Museum of the Royal Navy brings the seabed to life! Find out about their augmented reality sandbox and its link to the voyage of HMS Challenger - by Daniel Gill cs4fn.blog/2025/08/18/t...

If you were designing an underwater robot, what might you learn from the long extinct ammonite fossils and why might you need to program an ammonite brain? cs4fn.blog/2025/08/10/a...

Film Futures: how might movie plots change with Computer Science... Just for fun, The Lord of the Rings if there was Computer Science in Middle Earth (and then the serious reality on our Earth) cs4fn.blog/2025/08/04/f...

In an age of satellite navigation when ships have high-tech navigation systems that tell them exactly where they are, on accurate charts that show exactly where dangers lurk, why do we still keep working lighthouses? Because it makes for a more dependable system... cs4fn.blog/2025/08/02/w...

Free computing mini magazines to read and puzzles to solve for primary-aged children (roughtly 8-12 yo) from @cs4fn.bsky.social - get your PDFs here :) cs4fndownloads.wordpress.com/primary/ - there are also printable certificates for puzzle book attempters and completers.

Didn't know this! Love a bit of internet history :)

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY July 23 1952 Mark Weiser was born visionary proponent of calm and ubiquitous computing (and drummer for the first band to livestream over the Internet) cs4fn.blog/2025/07/23/t...

Let the brain take the strain Is it always better to hand complicated jobs over completely to computers or can it make things more dangerous? How should you divide up work between human and computer is not always an easy question to answer. cs4fn.blog/2025/07/22/l...

#ComputingByAllForAll - TODAY 22 July is a UK Pi Day Mādhava of Sangamagrāma calculated Pi to 10 dp (Showing 22/7 does not accurately compute Pi!) cs4fn.blog/2024/03/14/c...

#ComputingByAllForAll TODAY 20 July 1969 - Moon Landing You have heard of Neil Armstrong, first human on the moon. But have you heard of Margaret Hamilton? She was the lead engineer, responsible for the Apollo mission software that got him there, avoiding catastophe. cs4fn.blog/2025/07/20/m...

Happy #WorldEmojiDay from @cs4fn.bsky.social cs4fn.blog/emoji/ Our emoji-themed film quiz features one of my favourites :) 🚽🦖

#ComputingByAllForAll July 15 2017 Chrystie Myketiak publishes work on clinical incident reports also how the media affect investigations. Disasters best prevented with no blame culture & if media don't speculate until investigations completed. cs4fn.blog/2025/01/26/o... cs4fn.blog/2023/07/09/s...

New: Quantum Computing resources for people interested in classroom, public engagement / science festivals & events (plus CPD & careers). This blog post also links to a permanent page (which I shall update* periodically) peeecs.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a... #scicomm cc @cs4fn.bsky.social

"AI" slows down experienced developers. #TeamCompSci garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Computing By All For All - TODAY 13 July 1858 Jane Webb died She wrote the first ever story about Mummies (in the 1800s) but more interestingly she foresaw an AI and robot future cs4fn.blog/2022/07/23/t... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing by all, for all - TODAY July 10 1856 Nikola Tesla born The electronic engineer who was an enigma wrapped in a mystery...inventor extraordinaire. Read about him at... cs4fn.blog/2022/06/08/n... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing By All For All - TODAY July 7 2007 Donald Michie died He helped crack German ciphers at Bletchley Park, was one fo the first to work on learning machines inventing MENACE. Also invented memoisation and worked on natural language processing. cs4fn.blog/2025/05/19/t... #ComputingByAllForAll

You cannot be serious! ...Wimbledon line calls go wrong Human error is blamed again. What can we learn about designing dependable systems and whether we should believe computers do not make mistakes? cs4fn.blog/2025/07/07/y...

Free A3 posters for UK primary computing educators (primary schoolteachers, librarians and home educators). If you're outside the UK please download them as digital files to print yourself or display on-screen cs4fn.blog/heroes/ Ideal for classroom or corridor walls :) From @cs4fn.bsky.social

UK computer science teachers (primary), librarians and home educators - would you like a FREE set of A3 sized Computer Science posters? teachinglondoncomputing.org/2025/07/04/f... Posters made for @cs4fn.bsky.social at @qmuleecs.bsky.social by Richard Butterworth, funded by EPSRC, posted by QMUL :)

Computing by all, for all - THIS MONTH July is Disability Pride Month Read about Disability stars in the history of computing at cs4fn.blog/disability-i... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing by all, for all - TODAY June 30/July 1 2007 Dina St Johnston died She founded Vaughan Programming Services the UKs first independent software house and was responsible for early railway timetable boards for example. Read about her at cs4fn.blog/2025/02/19/d... #ComputingByAllForAll

All computer scientists should watch Christopher Nolan's film, Oppenheimer. Despite the film being about science, politics and war, not computer science Christopher Nolan believes the film has lessons for those in Silicon Valley... cs4fn.blog/2025/06/27/a...

June is Pride Month June 26, 2013 The US Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgement Edith Windsor was a senior systems engineer at IBM She led the case that made gay marriage legal in US cs4fn.blog/2023/02/19/e... She was also born this month (June 20 1929)

Computing by all, for all - TODAY June 25 1945 Adrian Stokes was born. He was one of the founders of the Internet. He had spina bifida from birth. Read more about him in our CS4FN article here: cs4fn.blog/2025/01/11/a...

Big Book of Computing Pedagogy: lots of good pedagogy includes @lctcentre.bsky.social semantic waves (one thing I talked about at the #PlayfulComputingConference) Also talks about unplugged computing, and Playful computing and more www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/... @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social

Yesterday I was having fun working with #DigitalSchoolhouse Lead Teachers demonstrating unplugged computing and talking about principles of doing it well based on research on @lctcentre.bsky.social Legitimation Code Theory Semantics and Autonomy... (teaching with Magic, Making Faces and Mayhem)

CS4FN at the beach

Alan Turing's late work was on morphogenesis (the science of how animals gain their shapes) One part of it is regeneration (flatworm style if not Time Lord style). If we understand it, perhaps one day we could regenerate more than just our toe nails too. cs4fn.blog/2025/06/15/d... #PrideMonth

Ada Lovelace understood the geeky details of how computers would work and what they might do. Professor Dame Ursula Martin was the first computer scientist to properly investigate the Ada Lovelace papers archived in the Bodleian. Here is a sample of what she found cs4fn.blog/2022/06/04/a...

Find out about Professor Dame Ursula Martin's work on the social machine of mathematics - how Computer science is changing the way maths is done, turning it into much more of a social enterprise rather than a discipline for lone geniuses... cs4fn.blog/2024/03/04/t...

Ursula Martin has been really deservedly appointed DBE in the King's honours- she has done lots of amazing work including supporting women and the first truly expert investigation of Ada Lovelace...Read her book on Ada if you want to really find out about Ada! www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/28239

Computing by all, for all -THIS MONTH Alan Turing died, June 1954. It is also #PrideMonth. Famous for Turing Machines and Turing Test he is also behind Turing Patterns: work which showed how maths & computation can be a basis for understanding nature cs4fn.blog/2025/06/14/h... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing by all, for all - TODAY June 9 2016 @qmuleecs.bsky.social Antonella Mazzoni published her work on the Mood Glove, exploring how touch can be added to music & sound effects to increase the emotional effect of watching films. Read about it at: cs4fn.blog/2023/03/27/m... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing by all, for all - TODAY 8 June 2019 Sophie Wilson honoured with a CBE for her services to computing cs4fn.blog/2022/06/24/s... #ComputingByAllForAll #PrideMonth

Computing by all, for all - TODAY 7 June 1954 Alan Turing died, committing suicide resulting from prosecution for being gay which was then illegal. Read about some of his gigantic contributions. There could have been so much more. cs4fn.blog/alan-turing/ #pridemonth #computingByAllForAll

Here is our 21st century Ohbot, Q, running our version of Strachey's 1950s love letter generating program. It generates a new flowery love letter each time, www.youtube.com/shorts/sPdHt... Find more about Strachey, the first computer wizard, and his fun programs here cs4fn.blog/christopher-...

And TODAY - June 5 1930 Peter Landin born LGBTQ+ campaigner. Contributed to functional programming and denotational semantics via models of programming language in lambda calculus cs4fn.blog/2025/02/08/p...

Computing by all, for all - TODAY 4 June 2014 Chester Nez, last of original Navajo code talkers died They created a World War II code that was never cracked and was faster than traditional machine based codes. cs4fn.blog/2024/08/11/n... #ComputingByAllForAll

Computing for all, by all - TODAY June 3 2009 Peter Landin died LGBTQ+ campaigner. Proponent of equal rights for all. Massive contribution to programming and semantics via models in lambda calculus Professor of CS at @qmuleecs.bsky.social cs4fn.blog/2025/02/08/p... #ComputingByAllForAll #PrideMonth