Magic

All of our magic and computer science resources in one place. The six booklets below are available free as PDFs (click on the cover to go to the download page for that booklet); the textbook ‘Conjuring with Computation’ isn’t free but there are two free chapters on the book’s website.

Conjuring with Computation
Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan (2023)

“We did the first version of our “The Magic of Computer Science” workshops in 2005 as a Saturday morning activity for school students. We went on to do a variety of versions, sometimes together, sometimes separately at both primary and secondary schools, universities and science festivals across the UK, teaching the magic along with Computer Science, Maths, Science and Engineering.

We planned and wrote much of the book together with Peter supplying virtually all of the magic. After Peter’s untimely death, I completed it over the next few years with the kind support of Peter’s family. Having loved magic all his life it was something Peter really wanted us to do so it seemed right to carry on.” – Paul Curzon