IBCS1 - 1213 - September

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:

1. Prompt the user to enter a length (be sure to save it in a variable)
2. Prompt the user to enter a width (be sure to save it in a variable)
3. 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
  • Media:ValuesTypesVariables.ppt
  • Values, Types, and Variables Identification assignment
• Input and Output
  • Media:PythonInputOutput.ppt
• Mad Libs exercise
  1. Prompt the user to enter a noun and store it in a variable named noun
  2. Prompt the user to enter a verb and store it in a variable named verb
  3. Prompt the user to enter another noun and store it in a variable named noun2
  4. Print out a message that contains noun, verb, and noun2
• Circle calculations exercise
  1. Prompt the user to enter the radius of a circle (this should be a float)
  2. Calculate and print out the circumference of the circle. Make sure your output looks like: "Circumference: ###"
  3. Calculate and print out the area of the circle. Make sure your output looks like: "Area: ###"
• Slope calculation exercise
  1. Prompt the user to enter x1 (this should be a float)
  2. Prompt the user to enter y1 (this should be a float)
  3. Prompt the user to enter x2 (this should be a float)
  4. Prompt the user to enter y2 (this should be a float)
  5. 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
  1. Answer the questions at the end of the PowerPoint using APS Google Docs
  2. Title the document: Basic Programming Terms
  3. 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:

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
• A brief introduction to user interfaces
  1. Using the power of the internets, what was the first commercial graphical user interface (GUI) developed for the personal computer?
  2. In what year was the first GUI introduced?
  3. 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:
  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 (9/14/12). 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