CSP Materials

Tell Your Students: You can Find True Love with Algorithms and Big Data
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14 Feb 2014 - 13:54
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d pass along this Wired article that may have passed your notice in January. Mathematician, Chris McKinlay, hacked OKCupid, an online dating site, to find the girl of his dreams while working on his...
Tags: Big Data Lecture Video Unit 1: Human Computer Interaction Algorithms Data Unit 5: Computing and Data Analysis Internet Programming Python
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Selection Sort Algorithm
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10 Jan 2014 - 23:09
Here are a few videos that I created last school year while teaching selection sorting. The worksheet is from Barbara Ericson, and the tiles idea is not mine. :)  The video shows us working through the algorithm using tiles. There is also two...
Tags: algorithm Lecture Video LO 4.4.1 - Evaluate algorithms analytically and empirically PS - 15-16 - Sorted and unsorted lists Ready to use selection sorting Algorithms Concept explanation Data Student activity Unit 5: Computing and Data Analysis
Insertion Sorting Resources
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10 Jan 2014 - 23:01
Here are a few videos that I created last school year while teaching insertion sorting. The worksheet is from Barbara Ericson, and the tiles idea is not mine. :)  The first video shows a trace through the selection sort algorithm. The worksheet...
Tags: algorithm Curriculum data insertion Lecture Video LO 4.4.1 - Evaluate algorithms analytically and empirically PS - 15-16 - Sorted and unsorted lists Ready to use sorting Data Student activity Unit 5: Computing and Data Analysis