• Chapters
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 1.2. How to use this guide
    • 1.3. About this guide
    • 1.4. Further reading
  • 2. Data representation
    • 2.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 2.2. Getting Started
    • 2.3. Representing Text with bits
    • 2.4. Representing numbers with bits
    • 2.5. Colours
    • 2.6. The whole story!
    • 2.7. Further reading
  • 3. Algorithms
    • 3.1. Brainstorming
    • 3.2. What’s the big picture?
    • 3.3. Getting started
    • 3.4. Searching
    • 3.5. Sorting
    • 3.6. Subtopic 3
    • 3.7. Subtopic n
    • 3.8. The whole story!
    • 3.9. Further reading
  • 4. Human-computer interaction
    • 4.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 4.2. Getting started
    • 4.3. Subtopic 1
    • 4.4. Subtopic 2
    • 4.5. Subtopic 3
    • 4.6. Subtopic n
    • 4.7. The whole story!
    • 4.8. Further reading
  • 5. Programming languages
    • 5.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 5.2. Getting started
    • 5.3. Subtopic 2
    • 5.4. Subtopic 3
    • 5.5. Subtopic n
    • 5.6. The whole story!
    • 5.7. Further reading
  • 6. Coding - Introduction
    • 6.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 6.2. Getting started
    • 6.3. Subtopic 1
    • 6.4. Subtopic 2
    • 6.5. Subtopic 3
    • 6.6. Subtopic n
    • 6.7. The whole story!
    • 6.8. Further reading
  • 7. Compression coding
    • 7.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 7.2. Getting Started - Simple Run Length Coding
    • 7.3. Image compression
    • 7.4. General purpose compression
    • 7.5. Sound compression?
    • 7.6. Subtopic n
    • 7.7. The whole story!
    • 7.8. Further reading
  • 8. Encryption coding
    • 8.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 8.2. Getting started - Caesar Cipher
    • 8.3. Password Storage?
    • 8.4. Sending messages securely?
    • 8.5. The whole story!
    • 8.6. Further reading
  • 9. Error control coding
    • 9.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 9.2. Getting Started - The Parity Magic Trick
    • 9.3. ISBN
    • 9.4. RAID Disks (Maybe...)
    • 9.5. The whole story!
    • 9.6. Further reading
  • 10. Artificial Intelligence
    • 10.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 10.2. Chatterbots and The Turing Test
    • 10.3. The whole story!
    • 10.4. Further reading
  • 11. Complexity and tractability
    • 11.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 11.2. Algorithms, problems, and speed limits
    • 11.3. Tractability
    • 11.4. The Travelling Salesman Problem
    • 11.5. Other intractable problems
    • 11.6. The whole story!
    • 11.7. Further reading
  • 12. Formal languages
    • 12.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 12.2. Getting started
    • 12.3. Finite state automata
    • 12.4. Regular expressions
    • 12.5. Grammars and parsing
    • 12.6. The whole story!
    • 12.7. Glossary
    • 12.8. Further reading
  • 13. Computer graphics
    • 13.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 13.2. Graphics transforms
    • 13.3. Drawing lines and circles
    • 13.4. The whole story!
    • 13.5. Further reading
  • 14. Computer vision
    • 14.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 14.2. Lights, Camera, Action!
    • 14.3. Noise
    • 14.4. Face recognition
    • 14.5. Edge detection
    • 14.6. The whole story!
    • 14.7. Further reading
  • 15. Network communication protocols
    • 15.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 15.2. Getting started
    • 15.3. Subtopic 1
    • 15.4. Subtopic 2
    • 15.5. Subtopic 3
    • 15.6. Subtopic n
    • 15.7. The whole story!
    • 15.8. Further reading
  • 16. Software engineering
    • 16.1. What’s the big picture?
    • 16.2. Analysis: What do we build?
    • 16.3. Design: How do we build it?
    • 16.4. Testing: Did we Build the Right Thing / Does it Work?
    • 16.5. Software processes
    • 16.6. Agile software development
    • 16.7. The whole story!
    • 16.8. Further reading
  • 17. Appendices
    • 17.1. Glossary
    • 17.2. Contributors
    • 17.3. News
    • 17.4. WebGL on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
    • 17.5. Teaching Guide for New Zealand
    • 17.6. Teaching Guide for Germany
    • 17.7. Future plans for the field guide
    • 17.8. Guide to System for Open Source Developers
    • 17.9. Development Status