Computer Science Unplugged

PDFs

Unplugged Teachers' Edition

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  Italian language version
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  German language version
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  Spanish language version
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  French language version

The new teachers' edition collects 12 of the 20 original activities, revised and extended by Robyn Adams and Jane McKenzie to better suit elementary-aged children. It also includes advice for integrating Unplugged activities into primary school curricula. Additionally, the book has been re-typeset, and many new illustrations have been added.

1. Data: The Raw Material—Representing Information
   1. Counting the Dots—Binary Numbers
   2. Color By Numbers—Image Representation
   3. You Can Say That Again!—Text Compression
   4. Card Flip Magic—Error Detection and Correction
   5. Twenty Guesses—Information Theory
2. Putting Computers to Work—Algorithms
   1. Battleships—Searching Algorithms
   2. Lightest And Heaviest—Sorting Algorithms
   3. Beat The Clock—Sorting Networks
   4. The Muddy City—Minimal Spanning Trees
   5. The Orange Game—Routing and Deadlock in Networks
3. Telling Computers What to Do—Representing Procedures
   1. Treasure Hunt—Finite-state Automata
   2. Marching Orders—Programming Languages

We are grateful to Google for sponsoring this free download as part of their educator's site

You can buy the teachers' edition in English from Lulu.com. The Korean version is available from Kyobo Books. We're working on versions in Japanese (due out September 2007), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, and several other languages.

A limited number of copies the teachers' edition are available to New Zealand customers only for NZ$30 (free postage). Contact us to order one.