Showing results for "Teens" in Computers & Technology

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable...

If you feel like you're losing your teen to technology, you're not alone. Screen time is rapidly replacing family time, and for teens especially, it is hardwiring the way they connect with their world. In Screens and Teens, Dr. Kathy helps you make sense of all this and empowers you to respond.

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...

An essential guide for parents navigating the new frontier of hyper-connected kids. Today's teenagers spend about nine hours per day online. Parents of this ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should an eight-year-old be allowed to go on social media?...

A New York Times Bestseller Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s...

Dr. med Daniel Illy arbeitet als Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie und Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie. Die Ratgeberreihe "Hilfe für den Alltag" zeichnet sich durch die leichte Verständlichkeit und den psychotherapeutischen Ansatz aus. Mit einfachen Worten erklärt Illy umfassend die jeweiligen Krankheitsbilder und was dagegen am besten hilft. Jedes Kapitel befasst sich mit einem anderen Aspekt der Erkrankungen und bietet therapeutische Hilfe in Form von kurzen Aufgaben an.

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, Boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions.

Java ist eine der populärsten Programmiersprachen überhaupt. Lerne in diesem Hörbuch die Sprache Java und die Konzepte der objektorientierten Programmierung kennen, egal ob bei der Autofahrt, beim Putzen oder Kochen. Wir beginnen mit den Grundlagen übers Programmieren im Allgemeinen. Ein Vorwissen in einer Programmiersprache ist zwar hilfreich, aber absolut nicht notwendig. Du lernst, was Variablen, Schleifen, Klassen und Methoden sind und wie du sie verwendest.

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary "harmonic telegraph", by the middle of the 20th century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.