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| Course: T171 00 | Name: David Eales | PI: T4444644 |
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There is a great many sites devoted to Alan Turing all worthy of our attention but we can only choose two and they are:-
The first page seems big and blocky almost like a newspaper or magazine web site, and when it says "This page is the gateway and guide to a very large web site" it means it. The site is maintained by Andrew Hodges and as he admits it is to compliment his book (Allan Turing the Enigma) in fact there is a lot of references to this and other books, plays etc. he as done.
Its contents are vast :- biography, bibliography, photograph archive and a part I very much liked is the Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook which is full of links to old photos, maps, stories etc. in fact it runs to twenty pages and every page is full.
The visual impact is as I said like a magazine page blocky but some of the icons are neat "with a book reference! ".The short online biography links are to pages created with bold text on a white surrounded by a multicoloured background that I found hard to read. Most of the other links are fine although some have a bit too much colour for me.
Navigation is good with mostly internal links via highlighted text and icons, all the links that I tried (and I tried a lot !) worked, there is a few external links, to his home page, his book, Amazon to buy his book, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Virtual Museum of Computing. but none that I could see to an alternative Alan Turing site.
For anyone wanting information on Alan Turing be it academic, just casual or any pupil doing a school project on Alan Turing and his machines this is as good a starting place as any.
His writing style is one of someone who is passionate and very knowledgeable about his subject. Most of the dialogue is easy reading.
So in conclusion.
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