ICS 10 • David G. Kay • UC Irvine

Supplementary References on Course Topics

These links and books explain or illustrate some of the topics we've covered in lecture, typically in more detail than we've seen in class. They're supplementary, not assigned, unless we say otherwise.

• Reference pages for Snap (snap.berkeley.edu), the older BYOB (byob.berkeley.edu) and the original Scratch (scratch.mit.edu)
• Other UCI computing courses (with no prerequisites or just ICS 10)
  • ICS 3, Internet Technologies and their Social Impact
  • ICS 4, Human Factors for the Web
  • ICS 5, Global Disruption and Information Technology
  • ICS 7, Modern Computational Tools
  • ICS 8, Practical Computer Security
  • ICS 11, The Internet and Public Policy
  • ICS 31, Introduction to Programming
  • ICS 60, Computer Games and Society
  • ICS 61, Game Systems and Design
  • ICS 62, Game Technologies and Interactive Media
  • ICS 105, Digital Information Systems
  • Informatics 12, Barter to Bitcoin: Society, Technology, and the Future of Money
  • Informatics 131, Human Computer Interaction
  • Informatics 161, Social Analysis of Computerization
  • Informatics 171, Introduction to Medical Informatics
• Algorithms and Efficiency
• Sorting Out Sorting, the video about different sorting algorithms.
• Data Representation (bits and bytes)
• Tables of decimal, binary, hexadecimal, and ASCII values: a simple ASCII table with 8-bit codes, decimal, octal, and hexadecimal; a compact ASCII table. The Unicode standard handles most of the world's writing systems; check out Ethiopic (from Africa), Devangari (from India), Chinese (from Asia), Cherokee (from North America), Armenian (from Europe), or Linear B (from ancient Greece).
• Human-Computer Interaction
  • Jakob Nielsen's Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
  • Caring for Your Wrists, by TidBITS Publishing. A two-page poster with good advice on avoiding repetitive stress injuries.
    
  • Typographic Design for Computerized Text, by David G. Kay. Two pages on the basic principles of typographic readability.
  • Supplementary references on HCI from Informatics 131, including some good videos.
  • Absolute Powerpoint by Ian Parker, a discussion of how PowerPoint interferes with effective information presentation.