Fred's UCAS Day Stuff

[ slides | code | links | other ]

This slightly bare page contains the material presented to students (and occasionally parents) at the UCAS day visits.

Here are the demonstration slides (4-up). Note that these slides contain more than I will actually have talked about in the 25-30 minutes on the day.

• ucas04-demo-4up.pdf 4-up PDF.

• ucas04-demo-4up.ps 4-up PostScript.

Here are the various bits of code used:

• garage.zip zipfile containing the "garage simulation", as a BlueJ project.

• wheelyline.nqc NQC code for the line-following robot.

Links to things talked about:

• Java Home Page at Sun Microsystems.

• BlueJ Java programming environment.

• Lego Mindstorms home page.

• RCX internals, describing the RCX in technical detail.

• NQC home page (originally by Dave Baum).

• The Lego Turing Machine.

• My occam page with various examples, including the bar simulation.

• KRoC, an occam compiler.

• The Assembly.

Links to other interesting things:

• Meccano difference engine, a version of Babbage's original difference engine (credited as the first computing machine).