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Coding Games in Scratch: A Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Building Your Own Computer Games

DK Children, 2015

Written for children ages 8–12 with little to no coding experience, this straightforward visual guide uses fun graphics and easy-to-follow instructions to show young learners how to build their own computer projects using Scratch, a popular free programming language.

With Coding Games in Scratch, kids can build single...

Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp (Use R!)

Springer, 2013

Rcpp is the glue that binds the power and versatility of R with the speed and efficiency of C++. With Rcpp, the transfer of data between R and C++ is nearly seamless, and high-performance statistical computing is finally accessible to most R users. Rcpp should be part of every statistician's toolbox. -- Michael...

Algorithmic Number Theory, Vol. 1: Efficient Algorithms (Foundations of Computing)

MIT Press, 1996

Algorithmic Number Theory provides a thorough introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms for problems from the theory of numbers. Although not an elementary textbook, it includes over 300 exercises with suggested solutions. Every theorem not proved in the text or left as an exercise has a reference in the notes section...

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Simon & Schuster, 2019

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the...

Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (Media Origins)

MIT Press, 2019

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.

Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death...

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

W W Norton, 2019

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power,...

Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking)

MIT Press, 2019

A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.

Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In Playing Smart, Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and game design. Video games...

Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics (Philosophical Psychopathology)

MIT Press, 2021

Philosophers discuss Jerome Wakefield's influential view of mental disorder as "harmful dysfunction," with detailed responses from Wakefield himself.

One of the most pressing theoretical problems of psychiatry is the definition of mental disorder. Jerome Wakefield's proposal that mental disorder is...

Conflicted American Landscapes

MIT Press, 2021

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists...

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