The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), brings you Conjuring with Computation: A Manual of Magic and Computing for Beginners. Develop your skills as a magician while also learning the basics of computer science by exploring its links to magic. Each chapter explains how to do a simple magic trick, step-by-step, then uses the trick to introduce linked fundamental ideas in computer science in a fun way.

By reading the book you will learn to do self-working tricks, be able to hold magic shows, create your own versions of tricks, and with creativity even invent your own. We cover:

The book includes profiles of computer scientists, alongside magicians with links to technology, through history.

Master conjuring and thinking computationally.

Contents:

• Chapter Summaries


• Introduction


• Algorithmic Thinking


• Evaluation and Logical Thinking I


• Making It Work for People


• Decomposition and Abstraction


• Procedures and Procedural Abstraction


• Building Bigger


• Abstraction and Data Representation


• Human–Computer Interaction


• Evaluation and Logical Thinking II


• More on Computational Thinking


• Cyber Security, Privacy and Society


• Advanced Technology


• Further Reading


• Acknowledgements


• Index of Computing Terms


• Index of Tricks, Illusions and Conjuring Techniques


• Index of People

Readership: General public: Those interested in learning how to do magic tricks and lay computing/mathematics/science including those visiting science and technology/computing museums. Those learning computer science subjects (at school or university) with an interest in magic.