IBCS1 - 1213 - September
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Contents
- 1 Thursday (9/27/12)
- 2 Tuesday - Wednesday (9/25/12 - 9/26/12)
- 3 Friday - Monday (9/21/12 - 9/24/12)
- 4 Wednesday - Thursday (9/19/12 - 9/20/12)
- 5 Monday - Tuesday (9/17/12 - 9/18/12)
- 6 Thursday - Friday (9/13/12 - 9/14/12)
- 7 Tuesday - Wednesday (9/11/12 - 9/12/12)
- 8 Friday - Monday (9/7/12 - 9/10/12)
- 9 Wednesday - Thursday (9/5/12 - 9/6/12)
- 10 Tuesday (9/4/12)
Thursday (9/27/12)
- Demo Geek Flow Chart Assignment
- Conditionals Review
- Comparison operators
- How do we use multiple comparisons in one conditional?
- More Boolean Logic
- Media:BooleanLogic.ppt
- Logical operators assignment
Tuesday - Wednesday (9/25/12 - 9/26/12)
- Review if statements
- Demo missing assignments
- Demo MPAA calculator assignment
- Complete Geek Flow Chart Assignment
Friday - Monday (9/21/12 - 9/24/12)
Warmup:
- Prompt the user to enter a length (be sure to save it in a variable)
- Prompt the user to enter a width (be sure to save it in a variable)
- Print out the area of the rectangle: "Area: ###"
Agenda:
- Be sure to have completed the Mad Libs, Circle, and Slope exercises
- Demo Quadratic Formula Assignment
- Introduction to Conditionals
- Comparison operators
- Boolean values: True, False
- if statement
- if-else statement
- nested if statements
- MPAA calculator assignment
- Geek Flow Chart Assignment
Wednesday - Thursday (9/19/12 - 9/20/12)
Agenda:
- CSTA student survey
- Missing demos of Introduction to Unix/Linux
- Math Operations
- Be sure to have completed the Mad Libs, Circle, and Slope exercises
- Quadratic Formula Assignment
Monday - Tuesday (9/17/12 - 9/18/12)
Agenda:
- Introduction to Values, Types, and Variables
- 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: ###"
Thursday - Friday (9/13/12 - 9/14/12)
- Demo the Introduction to Unix/Linux
- Media:BasicProgrammingTerms.ppt
- Answer the questions at the end of the PowerPoint using APS Google Docs
- Title the document: Basic Programming Terms
- Share the document with Mr. Bui
- Introduction to Python
- WingIDE 101
- Hello world program
Tuesday - Wednesday (9/11/12 - 9/12/12)
Agenda:
- Complete the Introduction to Unix/Linux
- Browse Linux Command.org and practice the command line
Friday - Monday (9/7/12 - 9/10/12)
Warmup:
- Bring up your responses from the "Defining computer science" activity at the end of last class
- Review your responses
- Define the term: "to compute" or "computation" in your "Defining computer science" google doc
- Now, try to define the term "computer science"
Agenda:
- "What is computer science?" discussion
- Different fields in computer science
- A brief introduction to user interfaces
- 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?
Wednesday - Thursday (9/5/12 - 9/6/12)
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
- IB 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:
- Write your name the top of the Google Doc
- List people/things/systems that use computers (e.g. air traffic control)
- For each of the above people/things/systems, write down the information/data that they use (e.g. flight information)
- List things you have done in any science class
- Define the term: "to compute" or "computation"
- Share the document with
Homework:
- Signed syllabus sheet due by the end of next week (9/14/12). 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