Computer Science

Books:

Programming languages, Artificial Intelligence and Coding are studied in books in the nonfiction section of the library at Dewey Decimal # 005.  We also have many books that discuss the effects of advancing technology on society and brains at these Dewey Decimal Numbers:  306, 616, 610-620.  For Cybercrime matters, try 363.259.  Gaming and Game addiction: 616.858 and 794.815.  Intellectual Property: 346.73.

Databases:

• Salem (has a good reference source about computer science)  (use MakinVia to get there)
• Academic OneFile from Gale– updated daily
• Science in Context
• Proquest E-book Central  (use MakinVia to get there)

Current Research, and Break-throughs:

• ACM Tech News: http://technews.acm.org/
• EurekAlert!     http://www.eurekalert.org/
• New York Times Science page:    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/ and Technology page: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
• Internet Hall of Fame:  https://internethalloffame.org/
• SciCentral     http://scicentral.com/
• Science Daily     http://www.sciencedaily.com/
• Science News     http://www.sciencenews.org/
• Elsevier  https://www.elsevier.com/
• Tech Blogs from Blogrunner: http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/topics/technology/
• Blogs and news from Zdnet:  https://www.zdnet.com/blog/ 
• Curious Cat Science & Engineering blog: http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/
• Workshop & Conference Proceedings  https://www.csail.mit.edu/research  organized by MIT and the University of Washington, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
• US Federal Law related to Intellectual Property and Cybercrime: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips

Print Journals available at the library:

• Popular Mechanics
• Scientific American

Tutorials

• Khan Academy
• Code.org – promotes coding in schools by developing Hour of Code activities, for example.
• MIT Open Courseware in Computer Science
• Wikiversity
• Virginia Tech Tutorials
• How a Computer Reads a Program and links related to Python
• About Python from OpenSource.com
• Codecademy offers tutorials, to teach the basics of computer programming using JavaScript, Python, etc.
• VR,Space for Virtual Reality building tutorials. (Thank you Camryn!)

See our “Study Aids” Research Guide for tutorials useful to using APS computer technology such as Canvas.