This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2022, held in Cape Town, South Africa, during July 21–22, 2022.The 10 full papers were included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: curriculum; assessment; teaching in context; innovative teaching; and pandemic pedagogy.

The word “robot” was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have always held our attention. But what do the stories we tell about the machines we make reveal about how we see ourselves?One person risks everything for one good shot. Absolution is dispensed at the push of a button. A brother and sister disagree about a strange benefactor’s true mo...

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY LATHAM) The Natural Bridge and Tunnel of Virginia (EDWARD A. POLLARD) Plantation Life in War Times (WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL) Among Florida Alligators (S. C. CLARKE) In the Mammoth Cave (THÉRÈSE...

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

The Rebel Yell gathers forty Civil War soldier memoirs into a capacious, often contradictory record of Confederate military experience. Ranging from formal recollection and campaign narrative to cavalry adventure, naval testimony, prison memory, and reflections on defeat, the volume illuminates both battlefield immediacy and the retrospective shaping of war. Accounts of major operations, irregular warfare, command, endurance, and home-front loyalties reveal the variety of literary register...

The Most Wonderful Christmas Tales Of All Time is an exquisite anthology that captures the heartwarming essence and infinite diversity of storytelling inspired by the yuletide spirit. Encompassing a range of genres from classic drama to fairy tales and transformative narratives, this collection splendidly showcases tales that explore themes of generosity, hope, and the magic of Christmas. The eclectic array of stories speaks to the classical, romantic, and even modernist literary contexts,...

Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand each other on issues that are ultimately about so much more than black and white?An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and ...

Everything doesn't always appear like it really is...sometimes what you see, is not always what you really see, and fairy tales are not really fairy tales, but true stories with sometimes not so happy endings.First-time author, B.J. Watson, takes you on a riveting, emotional, roller-coaster ride with her first book, “The Glare.” From start to finish, we see how our lives and choices intertwined with each other, and our truth may not be the truth when we step back and see what’s rea...

Taking shelter from the rain in a nearby farm, Harry Marsland encounters a young woman seemingly expecting somebody else. Hearing a noise on the second floor of the ostensibly empty house, the two strangers investigate, discovering the owner of the farm, shot dead. Who killed him, and why? Who was the woman waiting for? What Ensues is a thrilling mystery romp that is highly recommended for all lovers of crime and mystery fiction. Arthur John Rees (1872-1942) was an Australian mystery write...

B.J. Watson’s “The Glare” takes you on a riveting, emotional roller-coaster ride from start to finish. Blindsided by an unsuspected divorce, feeling abandoned and betrayed, Ally turned to alcohol to escape the pain. Her reckless behavior fueled by continued alcohol abuse over the years, catapults them into the worst living conditions, devastation, strange and incomprehensible encounters ever imagined. See how bad choices entwined with truth can cause self-deception and distorts re...

Unknown elemental assailants attack and severely damaging those closest to Yana, fueling her not only towards aid but headlong into vengeance. Her stubborn nature and relentless drive threaten to alienate her from new allies she must rely on if her goals are to succeed. Her path brings her back to Sesqui, where its civil unrest is teetering into a full blown war.Mason is tracking a target he believes has the answers to his continued existence while filling in the gaps of a shattere...