CS1 - 1011 - September

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Back To School Night (9/29/10)

Wednesday (9/29/10)

Agenda:

Monday - Tuesday (9/27/10 - 9/28/10)

Warmup:

  • Fill out the GvR survey if you made progress since the last time you completed it
  • Open a text editor
  • How would you give each student in the class a random number from 8-10 and another random number from 11-14?
  • Write down your steps

Agenda:

  • GvR Demos
  • GvR Quiz later this week

Thursday - Friday (9/23/10 - 9/24/10)

Warmup:

  • Create a world that looks like the on the board. It should have a single wall on the same line as Guido
  • Using an if statement, check to see if the front is clear
    • If true, then drop a beeper on the ground
    • Move forward (this should also be under the if statement)
  • Repeat the above if statement 8 times

Agenda:

  • GvR Conditionals Review
  • Please update Mr. Bui on the GvR Step that you are on by filling out this survey
  • Introduction to GvR Loops
  • Work on GvR Steps

Tuesday - Wednesday (9/21/10 - 9/22/10)

Warmup:

  • Start Guido in the lower left hand corner
  • Create a GvR program named gvr_warmup_9_20.gvr
  • At the top of the code, define turnright
  • Below turnright, define an instruction named stairs
    1. Move Guido one step forward
    2. Make Guido turn left once
    3. Move Guido one step forward
    4. Turn right
  • In the main code, run stairs 5 times

Agenda:

  • Work on GvR Steps
  • Introduction to Conditionals
  • Please update Mr. Bui on the GvR Step that you are on by filling out this survey

Friday - Monday (9/17/10 - 9/20/10)

Agenda:

  • GvR Steps #1-5 overview
  • Complete GvR Steps #6-10
  • GvR Steps 1-10 Checkoff & Quiz next week
  • Please update Mr. Bui on the GvR Step that you are on by filling out this survey

Tuesday - Thursday (9/14/10 - 9/16/10)

Friday - Monday (9/10/10 - 9/13/10)

Warmup:

  • How do we solve problems?
  1. Pair up (with a partner on the other side of the room)
  2. Take out a new sheet of paper and write your names on it
  3. Problem: Mr. Bui is hungry. How would you solve that problem? Write out the steps.
  4. Pause until Mr. Bui says to continue
  5. One solution: Make him a PB&J sandwich. Write out the steps involved in making a PB&J sandwich.
  6. How many steps are necessary in making a PB&J sandwich?
  7. Turn in your steps

Agenda:

  • Share sandwich stories
  • What does programming mean?
  • 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?
  • Introduction to Unix/Linux

Tuesday - Thursday (9/7/10 - 9/9/10)

  • 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 System -> Preferences -> About Me -> 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
  • Computer Science I Syllabus
  • What is computer science?
  1. Pair up
  2. Take out a sheet of paper
  3. Put both of your names on the top right of the page
  4. Complete the following:
    1. List 3 people/things/systems that use computers (e.g. air traffic control)
    2. For each of the above people/things/systems, write down the information that they use (e.g. flight information)
    3. List 3 things you have done in any science class
    4. Define the term: "to compute" or "computation"