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Karl Beecher @karlbeecher@mastodon.social

Open source advocate. Budding author. Recovering academic.

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Shocked by #WannaCry? We told @investigate_eu a few weeks ago that dependency on #Microsoft is a huge security risk http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/why-europes-dependency-on-microsoft-is-a-huge-security-risk/ … #fsfe

Early-bird discount for people who pre-order my Computational Thinking book from the BCS online store!

http://shop.bcs.org/display.asp?K=9781780173641&trail=Recent%20Releases

A summary my talk from this year's @republica in case you want the gist of what I said

https://medium.com/@karlbeecher/teach-our-kids-to-code-no-first-teach-them-how-to-think-f524fb8dd6d3

#rp17 #ComputationalThinking

A little step in the right direction:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/21/britain-set-for-first-coal-free-day-since-the-industrial-revolution

(Although, to be fair, it's probably because they ran out of coal.)

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Really bad science writing in the service Holy St. Elon Musk. Blecch.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/21/neuralink-and-the-delusional-world-of-muskians/

I'm currently writing a book about #computationalthinking. I'll regularly toot things here that feature in the book.

In the meantime, why not pre-order it? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computational-Thinking-Beginners-Problem-Solving-Programming/dp/1780173644 https://mastodon.social/media/CkOJHTULOnVacpsng2M

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For all new tooters! Before I finished working on a better "getting started" screen, here is: Welcome to Mastodon, here is what's different and why it's better https://medium.com/@Gargron/welcome-to-mastodon-111d9227e56a