Computing

Do you have a Raspberry Pi yet? Are you thinking of getting one? http://www.raspberrypi.org/ and http://www.themagpi.com/  will keep you abreast of the latest updates and project ideas and are an excellent source of technical advice

Are you interested in the latest gadgets and trends? http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/ will keep you abreast of the latest and greatest in the technology business.  It is well worth dipping into regularly to keep abreast of the enormous range of computer related opportunities and events.

A slightly different take on computer science  http://cs4fn.org/ has a variety of interesting and thought provoking articles activities and programming challenges

What is Worse Than Failure?  http://thedailywtf.com/  is a humorous blog  which “recounts tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices.”

In addition to horror stories, The Daily WTF “serves as a repository of knowledge and discussion forums for inquisitive web designers and developers” and has introduced several anti-patterns, including Softcoding and the Inner-Platform Effect. Expand you knowledge by finding out what not to do.

Finally for now, please click here to read the transcript of William Kahan discussing the current state of numeric computing. Click here for N.M.Maclaren’s paper discussing how computers handle numbers.

 

 

 Relevant to Cambridge Tec

Do you have a Raspberry Pi yet? Are you thinking of getting one? http://www.raspberrypi.org/ and http://www.themagpi.com/  will keep you abreast of the latest updates and project ideas and are an excellent source of technical advice

Are you interested in the latest gadgets and trends? http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/ will keep you abreast of the latest and greatest in the technology business.  It is well worth dipping into regularly to keep abreast of the enormous range of computer related opportunities and events.

Project management is a must have skill if you want to be successful in ICT and technology and http://www.brighthubpm.com/ is the most dynamic and readable project management blog I have come across. It contains up to date articles and useful “How to” information which is likely to have applications beyond just your ICT course.

Enjoy.

Miss Matthews

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