Ways of Thinking
The Advantages of Thinking Algorithmically
Clips from this programme
Pre-Introduction-Naomi Alderman looks at the advantages of thinking algorithmically. Digital creativity need not be out of reach. Make it Digital
Duration: 00:13Introduction-Naomi Alderman looks at the advantages of thinking algorithmically. Digital creativity need not be out of reach. Good code and good coders, dependency graphs, video game coders
Duration: 03:07Use of code, Ian Livingstone's printed fighting fantasy interactive Game books from the 1980-90's for the Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro
Duration: 01:58The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park (tNMoC) (Chris Monk) BBC Micro classroom. Hacking and changing & adding code creativity. Cracker Joke program, Ladybird book-Micros are fun. SOUND function, lines, loops and variables, documentation
Duration: 06:12The BBC Micro (David Allen, series editor) for learning, Structured BASIC, If, Then, Else.
Duration: 01:01BASIC for beginners, INFORM 7 for interactive fiction creation, inferences
Duration: 02:44What is behind coding languages. Mary Coombes, LEO (Lyons Electronic Office), instructions, the accumulator and registers, numbers are commands
Duration: 01:50The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park (tNMoC) (Chris Monk), Harwell WITCH computer. Dekatron memory, binary numbers, paper tape, NEW. It's just numbers running the program, a conversation between processor and memory, the fetch execute cycle
Duration: 03:57Picking a good coder / programmer: Zombies, Run! game: The languages behind this game (Adrian Hon, CEO Six to Start), Bugs, libraries and modules, maintaining code (Yoz Grahame)
Duration: 04:05Compact, elegant code, good coders: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Guide to The Galaxy on the internet (Yoz Grahame), code maintenance, Alex MacMillan, lead developer for Zombies, Run! Game, first release), step by step solutions (Chris Monk), the playful joy of creation
Duration: 04:37