Here is a set of links to the educational computing books I’ve reviewed up till 22 September 2019.
Incidentally, if you’re fed up with books you have to read, and would prefer an unreadable one with lots of tables to consult instead, then check out my latest opus. It’s called Computing and related qualifications, and is intended to make it quicker and easier for the Head of Computing in English schools to find a computing qualification that would suit some or even all of their students.
Here’s the link: Computing and related qualifications
The music programme of study requires students to possess an understanding of the music they perform and that which they listen to, as well as a grasp of music history, and an appreciation of different musical styles.
The Computing department would find the section on facial recognition interesting, because apart from possible ethical concerns, the fact is that even if the system has high accuracy, most of its identifications will be wrong.
I was intrigued to discover that a popular news magazine of the sixties had been anticipated by Defoe.
Nearly a hundred years after the Nazi phenomenon people are still asking the question: how could apparently ordinary or, in some cases, highly cultured, people commit such terrible crimes.
This pdf contains the reviews of mine that were published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024.
It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.
Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...
Before you rush off on the grounds that this book has nothing to do with Computing, let me reassure you that it does.
The original work on which this volume is based has perhaps been honoured more in the breach than in the observance.