This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking First of all the question needs to be what is it you want to learn? Is it a specific language, is it computer science, or is just experience and practice that you are after? There are generally several different mediums for learning … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: How To Learn Languages
A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: APIs
This post is part of the series A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hacking. What Is An API? API stands for Application Program Interface and is a way of one application interacting with another application, database or component. If for example you want to interact with a database of users and get information about it or … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking: APIs
A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking
As someone who has a large interest in programming, coding and computer science, software and hardware, but has been largely self-taught I know how difficult it can be knowing how to get started in "hacking". There are loads of resources out there for those who kow what they are looking for but for a complete … Continue reading A Complete Beginner’s Guide To Hacking
The Best Twitter Science Humour
As geeky is now cool and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) jokes are mainstream, on t-shirts and television, some might think that all the old jokes have been overused. At the same time, many STEM professionals all over the place are being encouraged to take to social media to share their research and raise the … Continue reading The Best Twitter Science Humour
Fictional Things Now Fact
Okay so are actually also a lot of things that we can actually build that we used to portray in fiction in general popular culture that for a very long time we would laugh at and secretly wish we could actually build and own for ourselves. Actually thanks to a combination of lots of clever … Continue reading Fictional Things Now Fact
How To Engineer Iconic Sci-Fi / Fantasy
So after writing a while ago about my daydreams to build the mechanical owl Bubo from Clash of the Titans I wondered what other iconic 'objects' in fiction could actually possibly be built and was there any evidence of this? There is lot of discussion out there about fiction predicting future technology in a kind … Continue reading How To Engineer Iconic Sci-Fi / Fantasy
The Ballad of Vacuum Science
THE BALLAD OF VACUUM SCIENCE We don’t look at Dyson hoovers (they’re just short of atmosphere) We are several orders magnitude Down in pressure round here. We study right across the scales- Low, high to UHV- In the depths of space Is the best that you can see! But pressures low as that Are hard … Continue reading The Ballad of Vacuum Science
The Superconductivity Song
Many know that Electricity flows and There's often resistance according to Ohm Some of these conductors though Dropping to temperatures below Critical temp go: SUPERCONDUCTING. Chorus: It doesn't mean that perfect conductors are in existence Though they have zero resistance, For the magnetic fields are kicked out And have to wrap themselves round about This … Continue reading The Superconductivity Song
Blue Pigeons 