Computer Science Unplugged - The Show

This video shows an entertaining way to introduce Computer Science to school students.

This version is the full 65 minutes video; it is also available in shorter clips starting at http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=voqghyZ...
For more information, see http://csunplugged.org

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[nonstop]

The example at 56 minutes fails because there is now way to know if it really was cathlyn who put on a new lock and sent it back. It could have been someone in between.

[csunplugged]

Yup, it's vulnerable to a classic man-in-the-middle attack. Sometimes students come up with this, which is great as the goal is to get them thinking about CS.

[Ciaran Gallagher]

I'm 21 years old and I am studying to be a software developer. I only learnt how to do what is being done in the video two years ago :(

[Ralph Caraveo]

I thought this was about computer science not Flight of the Concords

[Alimber Rios]

I am entering computer science in a year. This video is very informative. Great vid guys!

[aMidnightBreeze]

He didn't memorise anything except the fact that a valid grid has an even number of black cards in each row and column. No numbers were memorized.

Also, what people don't realise is that computers are not necessarily electronic computers. You could make a mechanical one, a biological one and even a completely abstract mathematical one (e.g. a Turing machine). Calling it computer science isn't so inaccurate.

[cj6745]

because Binary code is easy to learn

[unwatchemovies]

Learned a lot. Thanks. :)

[unwatchemovies]

exactly!



[HandsomeMenace]

SOMEONE GET THE COUGHING KID TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.

Also, I'm taking compusci in University next year.

Intradasting.

[panpog1]

what hapened to unicode

[Yann Bane]

F-factorizing prime numbers?

[IamPCGaming]

WTF how does a 12 yr old know what binary code is 0.01!!!!!!!