Zen Informatics - Issue 0 - Fundamentals, Part I (Preview): Learning Computer Science and Programming from Zero to Guru

Zen Informatics is a digital magazine on computer programming, science and engineering. Zen Informatics wants to teach computer science starting from scratch in a simple and intuitive way, while not neglecting the basic theoretical knowledge that each computer scientist must have. Zen Informatics doesn't teach you the brand new language or library. Our aim is to facilitate the learning of a forma mentis, that is a set of reasoning processes at the basis of informatical thinking. These competences are recently called "computational skills" and are the most requested in an increasingly digital age. For this reason, Zen Informatics is suitable for everyone: beginners, students, apprentices and professionals.

The first issue of Zen Informatics (Fundamentals, Part I) focuses on the concepts of abstraction, data, information, representation, interpretation, meaning and encoding - from binary code to multimedia and source code. This version is a preview: it contains the full text and all the figures necessary to understand the contents.