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Turn Right in Tenejapa
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Turn Right in Tenejapa

Designing software that is inclusive for global markets is easy. All you have to do is get an AI to translate everything in the interface into multiple languages...

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic

Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key ideaContinue...

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading

A puzzle about secrets Ayo wants to send her friends Guang and Elham who live together secret messages that only the person she sends the message to can read. She...

Designing an interactive prayer mat
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Designing an interactive prayer mat

Successful interactive systems design is often based on detecting a need that really good solutions do not yet exist for, then coming up with a realistic solution...

A sound social venture: recognising birds
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A sound social venture: recognising birds

Dan Stowell was a researcher at Queen Mary University of London when he founded an early version of what is now known as a Social Venture: a company created toContinue...

Oh no! Not again…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Oh no! Not again…

What a mess. There’s flour all over the kitchen floor. A fortnight ago I opened the cupboard to get sugar for my hot chocolate. As I pulled out the sugar, it knocked...

I wandered lonely as a mass of dejected vapour – try some AI poetry
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

I wandered lonely as a mass of dejected vapour – try some AI poetry

by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Ever used an online poem generator, perhaps to get started with an English assignment? They normally have a template...

Conjuring with logic: the remote control red-black mind meld
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Conjuring with logic: the remote control red-black mind meld

Magic tricks are just algorithms – they involve a magician following the steps of the trick precisely. But how can a magician be sure a trick will definitely work...
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