[Research] Fwd: Book from former Autoner: Computational Fairy Tales

[Artur Dubrawski]

Good stuff!

Congrats Jeremy!

Artur

PS We have plenty of younger demographic in the Lab now :)


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Subject: 	Book from former Autoner: Computational Fairy Tales
Date: 	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:58:23 -0400
From: 	Jeremy Kubica <jkubica at gmail.com>
To: 	Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu>, Jeff Schneider <schneide at cs.cmu.edu>



Artur and Jeff,

This book ia aimed at a younger demographic, but I thought I would pass
it along since I am a former Autonian.

I am please to announce that the Computational Fairy Tales book is now
available.  The Computational Fairy Tales book includes ~30 rewritten or
revised stories from the online collection and 15 all new chapters.
   Each story serves to illustrate a computational concept, supplementing
official instruction or motivating computer science concepts.

/Have you ever thought that computer science should include more dragons
and wizards? Computational Fairy Tales introduces principles of
computational thinking, illustrating high-level computer science
concepts, the motivation behind them, and their application in a
non-computer—fairy tale—domain. It’s a quest that will take you from
learning the basics of programming in a blacksmith’s forge to fighting
curses with recursion.

Fifteen seers delivered the same prophecy, without so much as a single
minstrel to lighten the mood: an unknown darkness threatens the kingdom.
Suddenly, Princess Ann finds herself sent forth alone to save the
kingdom. Leaving behind her home, family, and pet turtle Fido, Princess
Ann must face goblin attacks, magical curses, arrogant scholars, an
unpleasant oracle, and rude Boolean waiters. Along the way she must
build a war chest of computational knowledge to survive the coming
challenge./

The book is now available on in print
<http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Fairy-Tales-Jeremy-Kubica/dp/1477550291> 
and
Kindle
<http://www.amazon.com/Computational-Fairy-Tales-ebook/dp/B008EYHUDY> 
versions
through Amazon.

Please feel free to pass this along to anyone you think might be interested.

         - Jeremy