CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today.
The Instructor
Nick Parlante has been teaching Computer Science at Stanford for over 20 years, and teaches programming best practices at Google.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Stanford offers FREE CompSci 101
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
SOPA: What's your perspective?
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011 by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The aim of the bill is to help U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders fight online piracy of intellectual property. Introduced by the House Judiciary Committee as building on similar legislation, the PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the Senate's Protect IP Act of 2011, this bill “modernizes our criminal and civil statutes to meet new IP enforcement challenges and protect American jobs.”[1]
The bill is divided into two Titles with the first focusing on combating "foreign rogue sites", websites outside U.S. jurisdiction that enable or facilitate copyright infringement, and the second focusing on increased penalties to combat intellectual property theft.
The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on SOPA for November 16, 2011.[2][3]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
NXTs get WiFi
Now Your Lego Creations Can Tweet For You
Have you made something awesome with Lego Mindstorms NXT? A sweet walking robot, perhaps? Wouldn't it be cool if you could control it from work? Or to have it Tweet when something happens? Well, the future is now!
You can now get a Wi-Fi sensor for Lego Mindstorms NXT which means you can control your creation without wires on any end. Dexter Industries, who created the Wi-Fi kit, has already released instructions for how you can get your robot to tweet the temperature, and how you can make it ping a website. Why would you need a robot to ping a website? You wouldn't! Ever! It's pretty much the most boring use for a robot I've ever heard, but that's not the pont.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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