Life & fun · November 15, 2016
Secret Code
A customizable children's book that breaks stereotypes
Secret Code launched on November 15, 2016 with 68 votes, #751 of 3,648 launches that month.
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I recently published a book called “The Magic of Code” which is about the delights of the computational world, examining computing as a kind of “humanistic liberal art” that connects to so many topics, from art and biology to philosophy and language. The link I’ve shared is to a page on my book’s website where you can download a pdf of the introduction, to give HN readers a taste of what is inside. Right now there is so much worry and concern around technology that I feel like some people—though not the folks here—have forgotten how much fun that code and computation can also be. So I wanted…
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