Arjun Chandrasekhar

Norman - The Design of Everyday Things (Chapter 1). This is the first chapter of a classic book that basically gave rise to the field of user-experience design. Without Don Norman computers would be ugly and unusable.
What is user-experience (UX) design?
Human-computer interaction - A brief intro (Optional)

As we may think (Required). Written in 1945, this essay by Vannever Bush basically described what would become the internet and personal computing. There is even a Wikipedia article just about this one essay.
Man-Computer Symbiosis (Optional). Another foundational article, written in 1960 by J.C.R. Licklider, that came to shape modern computing. Also has its own Wikipedia entry.
Augmenting Human Intellect (Optional). Similar to the Licklider article, this article by Douglas Engelbart is a foundational text in Intelligence Amplification. Douglas Engelbart is the inventor of the computer mouse and in 1968 gave the Mother of All Demos of a computer system so advanced we still don't have all of its features today.
Mother of all demo's page and full video. (Optional).

Structure and Function - This is a short, high-level video that talks about structure and function as important concepts, but isn't specific to computation. Oriented to elementary students, so it might be a bit basic.
Read the Wikipedia entry for Data Structure and skim the wikipedia entry for Abstract Data Types (this gets a bit theoretical quickly).
Introduction to Data Structures by Aakash Varshney
A Data Structures playlist on Youtube (Optional) - This is a series of videos introducing some of the most popular data structures in computer science.
Structure by John McPhee (Optional) - This is a fun article about structure and writing by long-time New Yorker writer John McPhee. This isn't about structure in a computational sense, but in a narrative sense. Still, pay close attention to how the author uses tools (both computational and non-computational) to help him structure his writing.

Big O Notation (video) - This is a fun video especially because it uses some of the ideas from the Communications lecture. BIG IDEAS ARE EVERYWHERE!
Godel Escher Bach - This is a classic, and challenging, book that explores mathematics, computation, and art. You don't need to read the whole book, just give the introduction a skim and check out any chapters that might interest you. Chapter 10 focuses on computer systems.

Read: The Science Behind Six Degrees by Gardiner Morse - This is a review from 2003 about a Book, Six Degrees, that is all about network science.
Read: The World's Subway Maps also check out this interesting art project: Subway system at the same scale.
Read: Chapter 2, Graphs, of the book Networks, Crowds, and Markets - You can skip sections 2.4 and 2.5 in the latter half of the chapter.

CMPINF 0010: Big Ideas in Computing and Information