Tag: John Naughton
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Computer science in English schools: the debate rages on
In recent months a new consensus has emerged about teaching ICT (information and communications technology) in England’s schools: namely that it has been sent up a blind alley where kids are taught little more than how to manipulate Microsoft’s “Office” products. That recognition is a good thing, though the way in which the government were…
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Cardinality of the set of all strings
I finished John Naughton‘s A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet – an interesting diversion, to be sure and a book worth reading (not only because it reminds you of how rapidly internet adoption has accelerated in the last decade.) By now I should be on to proper revision, but I indulged…
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A Brief History of the Future
I am reading A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet by John Naughton. It was recommended as some extra reading for the networking module at Birkbeck and I thought I might as well give it a try (though I had to order it from Amazon as it now seems to be too…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 