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by Curzon Paul (Author)
The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), brings you Conjuring with Computation: A Manual of Magic and Computing for Beginners. Develop your skills as a magician while also learning the basics of computer science by exploring its links to magic. Each chapter explains how to do a simple magic trick, step-by-step, then uses the trick to introduce linked fundamental ideas in computer science in a fun way.
By reading the book you will learn to do self-working tricks, be able to hold magic shows, create your own versions of tricks, and with creativity even invent your own. We cover:
- Self-working card tricks
- Magical jigsaws, boxes and other objects
- False shuffles and cuts
- False choices
- Magic with books and pictures
- Mentalism, clairvoyance and tricks with ghosts
- Magic built on technology
- Find out your friends' superpowers!
You will also learn how computation underpins conjuring, answering questions like:
- What is computation?
- Why are the skills of a computational thinker, such as decomposition, abstraction and generalisation, so important?
- Why is data represented in different ways?
- How is easy-to-use software created?
- How does maths underpin programming?
- What are the basics of cyber security and privacy?
- Why must we all understand how computing technology affects society?
The book includes profiles of computer scientists, alongside magicians with links to technology, through history.
Master conjuring and thinking computationally.
