2010 Fall Exploring CS
Student web pages | Student Scratch projects
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| Monday 1/24 | Free software Free software exploration |
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| Friday 1/21 | Sony researchers Gawker passwords Password strength meter Public key encryption Biometrics Watch WorldTech Update |
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| Thursday 1/20 | Warm-up: hacking Guest: Franzi Roesner |
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| Tuesday 1/18 | Career paper to My Computer > GAR_StudentData > hmmartin > Writeable > Exploring CS Careers | |
| Friday 1/14 | Your career and computing | Work on Your career and computing |
| Thursday 1/13 | Work on Your career and computing |
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| Tuesday 1/11 | Warm-up: Machine learning Watch World Tech Update Start Your career and computing |
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| Monday 1/10 | HTC Desire predictive text Predictive text role play Program a brain Read about neural networks |
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| Friday 1/7 | Scratch intelligent agent | |
| Thursday 1/6 | Watch Keepon AI notes Intelligent Scratch programs:scratch: Cat AI Example |
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| Tuesday 1/4 | AI in games Watch Deep Blue chess AI Write a Tic-Tac-Toe algorithm |
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| Monday 1/3 | Watch AI Artificial Intelligence Loebner Transcript Hal Chatbot Jabberwacky Chatbot |
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| Friday 12/17 | Have a great break! | |
| Thursday 12/16 | Watch Wargames Uploading Scratch Projects |
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| Tuesday 12/14 | Finish maze game | Designing games |
| Monday 12/13 | Designing games |
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| Friday 12/10 | Warm-up: variables for complex behavior timer.sb levels.sb Designing games |
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| Thursday 12/9 | Warm-up: video games |
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| Tuesday 12/7 | Scratch broadcasts |
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| Monday 12/6 | Software that breaks laws Watch World Tech Update Butterfly example Add losing/winning screen to games |
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| Friday 12/3 | Get pong and catch the falling objects games checked off | Catch the Falling Objects |
| Thursday 12/2 | Programming basics vocabulary Catch the Falling Objects |
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| Tuesday 11/30 | Pong game Finished? Catch the Falling Objects |
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| Monday 11/29 | Watch World Tech Update Work on ball bouncing/pong |
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| Monday 11/22 | Scratch conditionals |
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| Friday 11/19 | Scratch drawing program |
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| Thursday 11/18 | Warm-up: programming Scratch shapes Done? tree stamping |
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| Tuesday 11/16 |  ProgrammingDraw Scratch square Explore projects on Scratch website |
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| Monday 11/15 | Quiz: HTML, the Internet Evaluate others' projects |
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| Friday 11/12 | Website project due - turn in to shared folder (GAR_StudentData\hmmartin\Writeable\Exploring CS Websites) | Watch World Tech Update Study for quiz from review sheet, project |
| Friday 11/05 - Tuesday 11/09 | Work on final website project | |
| Thursday 11/04 | Final website rubric Work on final website project |
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| Tuesday 11/02 | Work on final website project | |
| Monday 11/01 | Warm up: The Internet Design Start final website project |
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| Thursday 10/28 | HTML/CSS review sheet The Internet Internet exploration |
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| Wednesday 10/27 | Celebrity HTML, Celebrity CSS, Journal Done? Work on Movie Review |
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| Tuesday 10/26 | Celebrity HTML, Celebrity CSS, Journal Done? Work on Movie Review |
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| Monday 10/25 | Get CSS checked off | Warm up: Zillow Guest Continue work on Journal |
| Friday 10/22 | Guest speaker: Nate Moch, Zillow.com | |
| Thursday 10/21 | Study basic HTML tags and syntax | Short HTML quiz More CSS Journal |
| Tuesday 10/19 | Get celebrity page checked off | CSS exploration Optional: Background reading on stylesheets Basic CSS structure |
| Monday 10/18 | HTML Celebrity web page |
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| Thursday 10/14 | Browser comparison -- turn it in electronically | Work on browser comparison Done? Play LightBot Watch Chrome vs. Intro to HTML |
| Wednesday 10/13 | Work on browser comparison | |
| Tuesday 10/12 | Browser selection |
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| Monday 10/11 | Glog | Warm-up: Glogster, the WWW The World Wide Web Watch World Tech Update |
| Thursday 10/7 | Study for quiz | Quiz on hardware, data representation and operating systems |
| Tuesday 10/5 (long day) | Watch World Tech Update Glogster project |
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| Monday 10/4 | Operating Systems research | Review jeopardy |
| Thursday 9/30 | Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley |
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| Tuesday 9/28 | Watch Apple ad Watch Microsoft ad Warm-up: BIOS, operating systems |
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| Monday 9/27 | BIOS |
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| Friday 9/24 | Warm-up: electronics dissection Read e-waste article Watch World Tech Update |
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| Thursday 9/23 | Data webquest | Electronics dissection |
| Tuesday 9/21 | Warmup: data representations Data webquest |
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| Monday 9/20 | Study for hardware quiz | Hardware quiz Data representations |
| Friday 9/17 | How bit is a byte? Google search tips |
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| Thursday 9/16 | Installing CPU and RAM Stop motion PC build Computer dissection |
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| Tuesday 9/14 | Computer components research | Warm-up: components Hardware Components |
| Monday 9/13 |  Warm-up Computer components research |
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| Friday 9/10 | Look over Syllabus | Watch World Tech Update Guiding questions What's a computer? |
| Thursday 9/9 | Finish How techy are we? | Introductions Syllabus How does Facebook work? |
| Wednesday 9/8 | Welcome slides How techy are we? |
