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Digest

Certainly not comprehensive but the curation of media for digestion.
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E-safety and social media

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Years 7-9(KS3)
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KS4 and KS5 - Years 10+

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The Oxford University Computer Science Reading list.
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  • Computational Fairy Tales by Jeremy Kubica. ISBN: 978-1477550298 - a romp through the principles of computational thinking, illustrating high-level computer science concepts, the motivation behind them, and their application via the medium of a fairy tale. Aimed at secondary school students. "Bonkers, but very enjoyable." free version here

  • Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear. ISBN: 978-0321544285 - overview of what computer science is all about: each topic is presented with its historical perspective, current state, and future potential, as well as ethical issues.

  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. ISBN: 978-0735611313 - "What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? ...see how ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries."

  • Out of Their Minds by D Shasha and Cathy Lazere. ISBN: 978-3540979920 - the lives and discoveries of fifteen unsung computer scientists whose programs have helped people from factory owners to cartoonists.

  • The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis. ISBN: 978-0465025961 - explains the basic concepts of the computer in everyday language.

  • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. ISBN: 978-0007225736 - a chronicle that shows how information has become "the modern era's defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world."

  • The Pleasures of Counting by Tom Kôrner. ISBN: 978-0521568234 - puts Maths into the context of how it is used to solve real-world problems.

  • The Code Book by Simon Singh. ISBN: 978-1857028898 - not strictly about Computer Science, but an interesting introduction to code-breaking and cryptography, fields that have a strong connection to Computer Science.

  • The New Turing Omnibus by A Kee Dewdney. ISBN: 978-0805071665 - mini-articles on Computer Science topics.

  • Algorithmic Puzzles by Anany Levitin and Maria Levitin. ISBN: 978-0199740444 - "...The emphasis lies in training the reader to think algorithmically and develop new puzzle-solving skills: the majority of puzzles are problems where we are asked to find the shortest distance or the fewest moves to get from A to B, or construct a proof that a puzzle has no solution ..."

  • Problem-Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures by Brad Miller and David Ranum (Auckland, NZ)

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Magazines, blogs, journals, videos, websites & other stuff
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  • CS4FN (Computer Science for Fun) is a magazine on computer science aimed at school students "Explore how computer science is also about people, solving puzzles, creativity, changing the future and, most of all, having fun." It is printed twice a year and has an associated website with additional articles.

  • Computer Science Unplugged - a Computer Science curriculum for pre-university students developed in New Zealand.

  • Free, online lectures and courses from Academic Earth. (There's a Maths section as well as the Computer Science one.)

  • BBC's Make IT Digital initiative.

  • MIT and Harvard - Blown to bits Blog

  • BBC - News on Computing

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Listen
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All Years

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Upper school and 6th form

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Watch

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