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Young Reader's Choice Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • The Indian in the Cupboard
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  • The Giver
  • Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
  • Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl
  • Cornelia Funke The Thief Lord
  • Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
  • Cornelia Funke Dragon Rider
  • Terry Pratchett A Hat Full of Sky
  • Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief
  • Kate DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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  • 20th century American writer
  • blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction
  • critical liberal intellectual
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  • lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • known for his humanist beliefs
  • honorary president of the American Humanist Association
  • eight rules for writing a short story:
  • Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
  • Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
  • Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
  • Start as close to the end as possible.
  • No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
  • Write to please just one person.
  • Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense.
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  • "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
  • "Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."
  • work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated
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  • laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person
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  • Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license
  • Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author
  • No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, without derivatives
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  • Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes
  • Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND)
  • Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC)
  • Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • all Creative Commons licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification
  • CC0 option, or "No Rights Reserved."
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  • regarded as a "middle-level" language
  • developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • began as enhancements to C, first adding classes, then virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling among other features.
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Information Programming Learning

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  • high-level programming language
  • Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  • designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz
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  • to provide computer access to non-science students. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.
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  • uses the structural conventions of a programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading.
  • augmented with natural language descriptions of the details, where convenient, or with compact mathematical notation.
  • The purpose of using pseudocode is that it is easier for humans to understand than conventional programming language code, and that it is a compact and environment-independent description of the key principles of an algorithm
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  • commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications that are documenting various algorithms, and also in planning of computer program development, for sketching out the structure of the program before the actual coding takes place.
  • No standard for pseudocode syntax exists, as a program in pseudocode is not an executable program. Pseudocode resembles, but should not be confused with, skeleton programs including dummy code, which can be compiled without errors.
  • Flowcharts can be thought of as a graphical alternative to pseudocode.
  • <variable> = <expression>
  • IF <condition> DO stuff; ELSE DO other stuff;
  • WHILE <condition> DO stuff;
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  • Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. They are: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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    Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more highly imaginative fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history
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  • International Journal of Library Science
  • Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship
Sunny Jackson

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Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
  • once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award
  • The award has been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".
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Euphrosyne (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • daughter of Zeus and Eurynome
  • Goddess of Joy
  • incarnation of grace and beauty
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  • Also known as the goddess of Mirth
  • created to fill the world with pleasant moments and good will
  • attended the goddess of beauty Aphrodite and her companion Eros
  • loved dancing around in a circle to Apollo's divine music, together with the Nymphs and the Muses
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  • a god who dies and is resurrected or reborn, in either a literal or symbolic sense
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  • trained to perform the day-to-day functions of a library
  • assists librarians in the acquisition, preparation and organization of information
  • classification
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  • the role of the library technician is expanding and evolving
  • Library technicians typically require a certificate, or, ideally, an associate degree in library technology from a community college or other similar institution
  • librarians require a master's degree in library science from an accredited university-based graduate school of library and information science
  • Library technicians will often carry out the practical tasks involved in daily library operation
  • Because the education of the library technician is practical, broad and skills-based, they are job-ready upon graduation; the only training they may require is that which is specific to their particular place of employment.
  • assist library patrons in finding information
  • Duties can vary with the type and size of the library
  • data input
  • cataloguing
  • assist in acquiring print and nonprint materials
  • circulation
  • assisting in the provision of reference services
  • A library technician who supervises or serves as library manager with the advanced training is more properly known as a library associate.
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