Computer Science for Fun?

Just a very short post to make people aware, if they’re not already, about a great new magazine I came across at the EPSRC’s ExICTe workshop in Birmingham on Wednesday.   Computer Science for Fun, or cs4fn, was created and is written and edited by Paul Curzon, Peter McOwan and Jonathan Black of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary, University of London. Google, Microsoft and ARM are supporters from industry.  It’s a collection of fun stuff about computer science, teaching resources and advice.  The idea is to get sophisticated ideas over in schools by methods that capture the attention – such as magic tricks – while making a conceptual point as well – and encourage people to take up Computer Science as a career or at university.   There’s a high-quality magazine as well as a website, with entertaining articles such as Torchwood: In need of Backup Actually, grown-up kids would enjoy this too!