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Revision as of 08:03, 11 October 2011
Contents
Monday (10/11/11)
Warmup:
- Create a file named LoopingNotes.py
- Copy the code below:
- Comment each line and explain what it does (use the # sign)
x = 0
while x < 5:
print(x)
x = x + 1
Agenda:
- Looping practice
- Print out all the numbers from 0-50
- Print out all the numbers from 75 down to 25
- Write a loop that prints out the first 100 even numbers
- Prompt the user for a number and store it in a variable n, then print out the first n odd numbers (starting at 1) using a loop
- Print out all the numbers that are divisible by 6 from 0 through 100
- Guessing Game Assignment
Thursday (10/6/11)
Warmup:
- Make sure you've completed the Logical operators assignment
Agenda:
- Complete and demo Geek Flow Chart Assignment
- Introduction to Iteration (looping)
- while loops
- counter variables
Tuesday (10/4/11)
Warmup:
- On a scratch sheet of paper or on the computer, complete the truth tables on the board
Agenda:
- MPAA calculator assignment
- Media:BooleanLogic.ppt
- College Admissions Exercise
- Research a random college admission's median GPA and SAT
- Prompt the user for his/her GPA
- Prompt the user for his/her SAT
- Using if-statements, print out whether or not the user meets the median requirements for that college
- Logical operators assignment
- Geek Flow Chart Assignment
Friday (9/30/11)
Warmup:
- Answer the following questions with a True or False:
- 0 < 8
- 1 == 0
- 4 <= 4
- 9 > 10
Agenda:
- Make sure you've demoed Quadratic Formula Assignment
- Introduction to Conditionals
- Comparison operators
- Boolean values: True, False
- if statement
- if-else statement
- nested if statements
- MPAA calculator assignment
- Media:BooleanLogic.ppt
- College Admissions Exercise
- Research a random college admission's median GPA and SAT
- Prompt the user for his/her GPA
- Prompt the user for his/her SAT
- Using if-statements, print out whether or not the user meets the median requirements for that college
- Logical operators assignment
Wednesday (9/28/11)
Warmup:
- Prompt the user to enter a string and store in a variable named s
- Prompt the user to enter a number and store in a variable named n
- Print out the string multiplied by the number: s*n
Agenda:
- CSTA Survey
- MadLibs, Circle, and Slope exercises
- Quadratic Formula Assignment
- return statement in functions
- Go back and create functions that use return:
- circumference(r)
- area(r)
- slope(x1, y1, x2, y2)
Back To School Night (9/26/10)
Monday (9/26/11)
Warmup:
- Give an example for each of the following data types:
- int
- float
- string
Agenda:
- Values, Types, and Variables Review
- Input and Output
- Mad Libs exercise
- Prompt the user to enter a noun and store it in a variable named noun
- Prompt the user to enter a verb and store it in a variable named verb
- Prompt the user to enter another noun and store it in a variable named noun2
- Print out a message that contains noun, verb, and noun2
- Circle calculations exercise
- Prompt the user to enter the radius of a circle (this should be a float)
- Calculate and print out the circumference of the circle. Make sure your output looks like: "Circumference: ###"
- Calculate and print out the area of the circle. Make sure your output looks like: "Area: ###"
- Slope calculation exercise
- Prompt the user to enter x1 (this should be a float)
- Prompt the user to enter y1 (this should be a float)
- Prompt the user to enter x2 (this should be a float)
- Prompt the user to enter y2 (this should be a float)
- Calculate and print out the slope. Make sure your output looks like: "Slope: ###"
- Quadratic Formula Assignment
Thursday (9/22/11)
Warmup:
- Define a function named drawSquare() that draws a 100x100 square
- Test out your function by making several drawSquare() function calls
Agenda:
- Demo Python - House Function Assignment
- Introduction to Values, Types, and Variables
- Complete Values, Types, and Variables Identification assignment
- Function parameters
- Defining and calling a function with one parameter
- Defining and calling a function with more than one parameter
- Redo the House Function
- After demonstrating the House Function the first time, change the function by adding 2 parameters
- Add x and y parameters to the function header's parameter list
- Add goto(x,y) at the beginning of the function body so that the house is drawn at (x,y)
- Don't forget to use penup() and pendown()
- Test your new function by making a function call using parameters:
house(0,200)
house(-200,200)
house(0,-200)
Tuesday (9/20/11)
Warmup:
- Draw a triangle on the screen that has dots at each of its corners
Agenda:
- Introduction to Functions
- Function definition
- Function header
- Function body
- Function call
- Function definition
- Python - House Function Assignment
Friday (9/16/11)
Agenda:
- Make sure you demo the Python - Moving and Drawing Assignment
- More Python Turtle Commands
- exitonclick() reminder
- home()
- goto()
- circle()
- dot()
- Practice
- Draw a bullseye target in the middle of the screen
- Draw dots in a row
- Draw a circle in each of the four corners
- Draw dots in a row of increasing size that are touching each other
Monday - Wednesday (9/12/11 - 9/14/11)
Warmup:
- Using the power of the internets, what was the first commercial graphical user interface (GUI) developed for the personal computer?
- In what year was the first GUI introduced?
- In what year was the Unix operating system developed?
Agenda:
- Introduction to Unix/Linux
- Media:BasicProgrammingTerms.ppt
- Introduction to Python Turtle
- Python - Moving and Drawing Assignment
Tuesday - Thursday (9/6/11 - 9/8/11)
- Introductions
- Name cards
- Lab setup/config
- Login username is your first initial and lastname (e.g. pbui)
- Your password is your student ID number
- Go to Apple (upper left) -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Change Password
- Acceptable-use policies apply in this lab!
- Student Surveys
- Fill out and submit
- Misc logistics
- 20/10 no pass policy
- Location of bathrooms
- Sign in/out sheets
- IB Computer Science I Syllabus
- What is computer science?
- List 3 people/things/systems that use computers (e.g. air traffic control)
- For each of the above people/things/systems, write down the information that they use (e.g. flight information)
- List 3 things you have done in any science class
- Define the term: "to compute" or "computation"
- How many steps are necessary in making a PB&J sandwich?