Computer Science

Wednesday (9/18/12)

Agenda:

• Animation Evaluations
  1. Bring up your animation and make sure it plays with a single-click of the green flag.
  2. Receive an evaluation sheet from Mr. Bui
  3. Be sure to put your name at the top. As we go around evaluating each others' animations, leave your evaluation sheet sitting at your computer.
  4. At the gong, go to another computer and play the animation
  5. Complete an evaluation on the original author's evaluation sheet. Be sure you write your name on the author's evaluation sheet.
  6. There will be a gong every 5 minutes
  7. At the end of class, your computer should have 3 evaluations by other people.
• More Control Blocks
  • Repeat X times
  • Forever block
• Bouncing sprites animation
  1. Your Scratch program should have at least 5 different sprites
  2. When the program starts, each sprite should point in a random direction
  3. Each sprite should then continuously move around, bouncing off the edges
  4. Try out some different things like pen actions and color changes

Monday (9/17/12)

Agenda:

• Scratch Review
• Broadcast and When I Receive blocks
• Complete your Sprite Animations
  • Create an animation that retells a movie/story in simplified terms. In your animation, you must employ the following:
  • Background image
  • Sprites that move around
  • Sprites that change costume
  • Sprites and say/think
  • A graphic or size effect being applied to sprites
  • A sound should be played

• We will demo the animations to each other next class

Thursday (9/13/12)

Warmup:

• Bring up your Scratch - Moving and Drawing Assignment
• Make sure you have completed and demonstrated it to Mr. Bui

Agenda:

• Key pressing
• Sounds (you will need to use headphones for this unit!)
  • Downloading a sound (e.g. Mario sound clips)
  • Record your own sound
  • Playing sounds in Scratch
• Complete and demo Scratch - Sound Board Assignment
• Sprite Looks
  • Changing costumes
  • Saying and Thinking
  • Graphics and Size effects
• Wait command
• Sprite Look Practice - Create an animation that retells a movie/story in simplified terms. In your animation, you must employ the following:
  • Background image
  • Sprites that move around
  • Sprites that change costume
  • Sprites and say/think
  • A graphic or size effect being applied to sprites
  • A sound should be played

Tuesday (9/11/12)

Warmup:

• Use Google Image Search to find a school-appropriate image that you would like to use as a sprite. Don't worry if you need to crop (cut out the image.)

Agenda:

• Introduction to Scratch
  • Sprites and costumes
  • Basic movement
  • Pen
• Complete and demo Scratch - Moving and Drawing Assignment

Friday (9/7/12)

Warmup:

1. Bring up your responses from the "Defining computer science" activity at the end of last class
2. Review your responses
3. Define the term: "to compute" or "computation" in your "Defining computer science" google doc
4. Now, try to define the term "computer science"

Agenda:

• "What is computer science?" discussion
• Different fields in computer science
• How do we solve problems?
  1. Pair up
  2. One partner should create a google doc
  3. Write both partners names at the top
  4. Don't forget to share the document with
  5. Write out the steps involved in making a PB&J sandwich
• Share sandwich stories
• What lessons/problems did we run into?
• What does programming mean?
• Introduction to Scratch
  • Sprites (costumes and direction)
  • Basic movement
  • Pen
• Scratch - Moving and Drawing Assignment

Homework:

• Signed syllabus sheet due by the end of next week (9/16/11). You may turn it in anytime before then.

Wednesday (9/5/12)

Warmup:

• If you have not done so, complete the Student Survey

Agenda:

• Misc logistics
  • 20/10 no pass policy
  • Location of bathrooms
  • Sign in/out sheets
• Introductions
• Computer Science I Syllabus
• IT Resources for Students (UserID: StudentID# and Password: Birthday)
  • Google Apps - http://www.apsva.us/google
  • Dropbox - http://www.dropbox.com
  • etc.
• Defining computer science:
  1. Write your name the top of the Google Doc
  2. List people/things/systems that use computers (e.g. air traffic control)
  3. For each of the above people/things/systems, write down the information/data that they use (e.g. flight information)
  4. List things you have done in any science class
  5. Define the term: "to compute" or "computation"
  6. Share the document with

Homework:

• Signed syllabus sheet due by the end of next week (9/14/11). You may turn it in anytime before then.

Tuesday (9/4/12)

• 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!
• Complete the Student Surveys