IB Computer Science 1
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Contents
Tuesday (9/20/11)
Warmup:
- Draw a triangle on the screen that has dots at each of its corners
Agenda:
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?