Bryanston Computer Science

45 years ago #Today, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie introduced the "Hello, World!" program for the first time in a published book, 1978's «The C Programming Language» [read more: buff.ly/3XUSB65]

📢Applications from UK students hoping to start Computing degrees in 2023 have risen by 9%. This is more than for any other subject area, data today from @ucas_corporate shows. Figures also reveal an 18% increase in women choosing these courses 📢 shorturl.at/esVY8

The first Apple Macintosh went on sale on this day in 1984. We don’t have one of the very first ones but our Mac Classic is still going!

#OnThisDay in 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart publicly demonstrated the mouse. It was a device that he had been thinking about and working on for more than a decade. computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewi…

Following last term’s appeal, we have many great exhibits for our museum of digital technology. Here’s a small sample!

Winning first and second place overall, teams completed activities including open-source intelligence gathering, Wi-Fi password cracking, code breaking - and much more! Read the full story here: bryanston.co.uk/army-stem-cybe… (2/2) @BryCompSci

Nine GCSE Computer Science pupils in B took part in the Army STEM Cyber Challenge run by the 11th (Royal School of Signals) Signal Regiment at Blandford Camp this week. (1/2) @BryCompSci

Have some amusement on a Monday morning: A friend made a lunar lander game which hooks into the Windows copy dialog "While running, the app will detect all windows copy dialogs and paint a game overlay on top of them while they are focused." github.com/Sanakan8472/co…

Leila F de G is heading to Edinburgh to study computer science and hopes to lead research projects to help solve modern day problems. You've worked so hard Leila, well done! #TeamBryanston

Congratulations to our A2s - an impressive set of A level results! Very best wishes to you all in the future!

@GiftedTawk @ShapeRobotics It’s software installed on the computers rather than online, and yes, there is an iPad app - look for Fable Blockly 👍

@BryCompSci @ShapeRobotics Can your robots be programmed via an iPad app rather than online?

More @shaperobotics action this week - pick and place with a table tennis ball.

@formorian1976 @acornproton We’re used to clicky keyboards, we have several original Mac keyboards and also an Olivetti mechanical typewriter :)

No school computer collection would be complete without a BBC Micro, the mainstay of 1980s computing education. And thankfully ours now has one!

@gslug1 Good tip, will do that asap!

@BryCompSci Make sure you check/change the CMOS battery! They have destroyed many A3000s.

Enormous thanks to the Lobb family for a substantial donation to our fledgling computer museum, including this magnificent Acorn BBC A3000 from 1990. This was one of the first computers with an ARM RISC CPU, the ancestor of the chips found in most phones today.

Good news! We also have the Acorn monitor. Bad news, it seems to have some vertical hold issues 🤔 But the actual machine seems to be working!

#OnThisDay in 1948, just after 11am, the world's first stored-program electronic digital computer successfully executed its first program. This was at @OfficialUoM, and the machine became known as The Manchester Baby. computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewi…

@BryanstonSchool Thank you to the parents of Sam W (A2) for a couple of items for the museum including this fantastic early-90s Motorola StarTAC phone:

.@BryCompSci is putting together a small museum of computers and other digital technology, to illustrate the pace of development in recent decades and to put current technology into context. Find out more in our latest story: bryanston.co.uk/news/?pid=3&ni…

@computermuseum #5352 Hello world!