January 2012 Archives

Principles of Computer Technology: Jan 30th - Feb 3rd

By Andy Judkis on January 27, 2012 7:11 AM | No Comments
Monday:
Go over design principles, begin work on "Who Are You?" project

Tuesday:
"15 Questions" homework due at beginning of class
Critique MCVSD flyer
Continue working on "Who Are You?" project

Wednesday:
Last time in class for "Who Are You?"
Give out "Cartoon History of Computers" reading, hardware vocabulary worksheet

Thursday:
Begin unit on fundamentals of computer hardware and operating systems
Dissect old computers

Friday:
Homework due: read Cartoon History through page 65, turn in hardware vocabulary worksheet
History of computers: Jacquard, Babbage

What is hardware and software, anyway?
Discussion of computer hardware - input, output, storage, processing
Busses and chips

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Principles of Computer Technology: Week of Jan 23-27, 2012

By Andy Judkis on January 20, 2012 7:25 AM | No Comments
Monday:
Go over codingbat worksheet on subroutine return values (codingbat worksheet-JES.doc).  (The actual codingbat web site for Python is here)
Review material for final exam: (FinalWrittenFall11-12Study Guide.doc)
Here's a link to The Guy Under The Car

Tuesday:
Review material for final exam
Vpython game available for your enjoyment

Wednesday:
Final exam!

Thursday:
last day, plans TBD
Adios guys . . .  it's been a pleasure!  See you in Medibotics, maybe?

Friday:
Welcome to the second semester!
Videos:

Principles of Computer Technology: Week of Jan 16-20, 2012

By Andy Judkis on January 15, 2012 9:38 PM | No Comments
   Our final exam will be on Wednesday, Jan 25th

Monday:
staff day, no school

Tuesday:
(please be sure you have emailed your Robotics/AI presentations to me by 6 AM!)
Begin presentations

Wednesday:
turn in current events
JES drawing and face-drawing exercises due
finish up Robotics/AI presentations
give out slides on subroutines that return values, to look over for Friday

Thursday:
UMDNJ test, no class

Friday:
discuss subroutines that return values, do exercises in class, begin codingbat homework


Principles of Computer Technology: Week of Jan 9-13, 2012

By Andy Judkis on January 9, 2012 1:22 PM | No Comments
Monday:
robotics/AI paper due!
last in-clss time to work on list challenges

Tuesday:
discuss looping
do in-class loop exercises, give out loop homework
introduce JES drawing APIs
do introductory JES drawing exercises

Wednesday:
(current events)
introduce subroutine parameters
work on subroutine face-drawing exercise

Thursday:
(list challenges (Shakespearean insults, etc) due)
(loop homework due)
introduce subroutines that return values
do in-class subroutine exercises

Friday:
review loop homework
students start on codingbat homework in class

Principles of Computer Technology: Week of Jan 2-6, 2012

By Andy Judkis on January 1, 2012 5:29 PM | No Comments
Please remember that the Robotics and AI Paper is due by 11:00 AM next Monday, January 9th, both on paper and via TurnItIn.  More info on the website.

The Nova episode about IBM's Watson system is online here.

Download JES here.

Monday:
Happy New Year!
Complete slides from first Jython packet
Begin work on guessing game programs and code review

Tuesday:
Continue working on guessing game programs and code review

Wednesday:
First half: finish up and review guessing game programs
Second half: introduce Python lists, begin list exercises

Thursday:
continue with Python lists
work on list exercises and challenges

Friday:
(guessing game programs due)
Continue to work on list challenges
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