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"IMHO, having students do computer games projects is absolutely the best possible way to teach programming, graphics, software engineering, object oriented programming, etc."
- Rudy Rucker
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| Black square | ||
| A device for secret communication. |
| On Anteac's lap lay a small square of inky black about 10 mm on a side and no more than 3 mm thick. She wrote upon the square with a glittering needle, one word upon another, all of them absorbed into the Square. The completed message would be impressed upon the nerve receptors of an acolyte messengers eyes, latent there until they could be replayed at the Chapter House. |
| Technovelgy from God Emperor of Dune,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1981 Additional resources -
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