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Jeremy Kubica
Personal blog · computationaltales.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting
Jeremy Kubica writes Computational Fairy Tales, a personal blog at computationaltales.blogspot.com about programming and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeremy Kubica's blog for its book Computational Fairy Tales, which teaches complex programming concepts, and for its place in software engineering reading lists.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Computer science concepts as told through fairy tales. By Jeremy Kubica
What Hacker News says?
Computational Fairy Tales [1] introduces a lot of complex concepts in a readable way. [1] https://computationaltales.blogspot.com/p/book.html
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on “Ask HN: Are there any good “coding for kids” books?”Submitted Computational Fairy Tales as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThis blog is such a classic for that. http://computationaltales.blogspot.com
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on “Books for Software Engineers in 2023”Submitted Computational Fairy Tales as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHuge upvote for Carlos Bueno's Lauren Ipsum (aka HN'er aristus). I first heard about this book on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2144526 ), when it was just a few chapters. I read them to my daughter, Laurel. She thought it was soooo cool and told him so. He actually wrote in a bit part about Lauren saying "My name's not Laurel!" and sent Laurel an autographed copy. My kids went on to read the whole book w…
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on “Teaching is Compression”Submitted Computational Fairy Tales as a story · 1 points
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