Book for essentials of computer science and computer science principles, using javascript as a programming language.
https://github.com/kcdodd/ecsp-book/raw/master/ecsp.pdf
The target audience for this book is a student who has no prior exposure to computer science, including early high school levels. My goal is to have portions of the book which are not platform specific covering general concepts used in computer science. Then portions of the book which use a specific platform to implement algorithms and applications of those ideas, as well as getting the student to a point that they can make something they enjoy the results of.
Platform specifics will include:
- JavaScript - programming
- HTML/CSS - visual formatting
- GitHub - file revision management
- Inkscape and GIMP - image creation and manipulation
- Node.js - applications and server/client
Once everything is installed, you'll have to add the -shell-escape flag when you call LaTeX because of minted. Otherwise it will tell you to add it.
This book is a work in progress.
If you would like to help, please feel free to fork this project, make additions or corrections, and submit a pull request to include your changes/additions.
I have chosen JavaScript as the first language. If you wish to use sections of the book but introduce a different language, feel free to do that. If you add to the non-language-specific topics, I would appreciate it if we can still merge that content between languages.