IBCS1 - 1011 - October

Thursday (10/28/10)

Agenda:

• 1st Quarter Exam
• Turn in any missing assignments
• Demo Geek Flow Chart Assignment

Tuesday (10/26/10)

Warmup:

• Complete Logical operators assignment and submit to SWL

Agenda:

• Introduction to Mr. Fowler
• Go over Logical operators assignment
• 1st Quarter Exam Review
  • HTTLACS Ch 1, 2, 3, 4
• Complete and demo Geek Flow Chart Assignment

Wednesday - Friday (10/20/10 - 10/22/20)

Warmup:

1. Prompt the user with the following question: "What is the Washington-Lee mascot?"
   • Be sure to save the raw_input() into a variable!
2. Use an if statement to check if the user's answer is equal to "Generals"
   • If so, then print out "You got it right!"
   • It not, then print out "Wrong answer buddy!"

Agenda:

• Conditional Review
  • Comparison operators
  • Logical operators
• Complete HTTLACS: Ch 4 Exercises
• Geek Flow Chart Assignment

Monday (10/18/10)

Warmup:

• You will create a program that calculates the amount of time it takes for an object to hit the ground (when dropped from a distance)
  1. Prompt the user to enter a number (which will be how high the object is in meters) and store it in a variable s
  2. Calculate t using the formula: t = (s/(0.5*9.8))**0.5
  3. Print out the message: "Your object will hit the ground in t seconds"

Agenda:

• Field trip discussion
• Introduction to Conditionals (if statement)
  • Comparison operators
  • if-statement
  • if-else statement
  • if-elif-else statement
• MPAA calculator assignment
• Media:BooleanLogic.ppt
• HTTLACS: Ch 4 Exercises

Thursday (10/14/10)

Agenda:

• HTTLACS: Ch 3 Exercises
• Field trip slips!
• Field trip tomorrow - meet in Cafeteria @ 8:10 AM
• Introduction to Security
  • Authentication - Media:Authentication.ppt

Tuesday (10/12/10)

Agenda:

• Field trip slips
• Quadratic Formula Assignment
• Read through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Chapter 3
• HTTLACS: Ch 3 Exercises

Thursday (10/7/10)

Warmup:

• Prompt the user to enter a word and store it in a variable named word (HINT: use raw_input())
• Prompt the user to enter a number and store it in a variable named num (HINT: use input())
• Print word num times (HINT: multiple word by num)

Agenda:

• Make sure that the following have been submitted to School Web Lockers
• HTTLACS: Ch 1 Exercises
• Values, Types, and Variables Identification assignment
• HTTLACS: Ch 2 Exercises
• Quadratic Formula Assignment
• Read through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Chapter 3
• HTTLACS: Ch 3 Exercises

Tuesday (10/5/10)

Warmup:

• Prompt the user to enter a number using input() and store it in a variable x
• Print out the square of the number with a message: "The square of", x, "is", _______
• Print out the square root of the number with a message: "The square root of", x, "is", _______

Agenda:

• Field trip slips!
• HTTLACS: Ch 2 Exercises
• Values, Types, and Variables Identification assignment

Friday (10/1/10)

Warmup:

• Research on the interwebz the following:
  1. Who invented the Python programming language?
  2. Where was it invented?
  3. Who funded the project to develop Python? (Hint: Guido Van Rossum)

Agenda:

• Any missing quiz demonstrations should be shown when Mr. Bui gets back
• Introduction to data values, variables, and etc.
• Read through How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Chapter 2
• Complete the HTTLACS: Ch 2 Exercises