It is completely unthinkable that somebody studies physics without learning about Gallileo or Newton, or philosophy without thinking about what Socrates or Kant wrote. Unfortunately, it is quite common to study informatics without knowing anything about the history of the discipline, or the origin of the ideas and concepts of informatics.

As a consequence, a lazy default story about US-american startups, run by white men, has taken hold. Since this is neither accurate nor flattering for the discipline, this bachelor or master thesis project is focussed on the goal to picture a more inclusive story of the history of the IT industry, of the field of informatics, and of the ideas in this field. from this research, a card game (eg. trading card game), maybe based on a fantasy theme (like pride and prejudice and zombies, or the thrilling adventures of lovelace and babbage) should be designed and, ideally, deployed and evaluated.

while the game should be a real-world card game, it could have a digital component via QR codes or NFC tags.

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