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Computer #History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

Outline of Computer Engineering #History of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_engineerin...

History of Computer Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science

Outline of Computer Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science

History of the Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

History of the World Wide Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web

... maybe a bit OT; but, interestingly, IDK if any of these include a history section:

#K12CSFramework (Practices, Concepts): https://k12cs.org

- "Impacts of Computing" (Culture; Social Interactions; Safety, Law, and Ethics): https://k12cs.org/framework-statements-by-progression/#jump-...

"Competencies and Tasks on the Path to Human-Level AI" (Perception, Actuation, Memory, Learning, Reasoning, Planning, Attention, Motivation, Emotion, Modeling Self and Other, Social Interaction, Communication, Quantitative, Building/Creation): http://wiki.opencog.org/w/CogPrime_Overview#Competencies_and...

Code.org (#HourOfCode): https://code.org/learn

Not really in keeping with the idea of a gift suitable for a niece.

No, but particulary more comprehensive and informative than any one video. These links (to #OER) would be useful for anyone intending to try and replicate the form and style of the "Cosmos" video series with Computer Science content.

Cosmos was also a dead tree book. [1] It was not uncommonly given as a gift.

The original TV series was broadcast the same year as its publication, 1980, but I don't think it was readily available on consumer tape until several years later and then not at normal holiday gift prices. Back in those days, most video libraries were built by the librarian directly recording broadcasts. But most people would just wait for a rebroadcast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(Carl_Sagan_book)

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