Unit 4: Introduction to Programming

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Stanford's CS 101 self-study on-line course using Javascript

Nick Parlante of Stanford has made the CS 101 introduction to the essential ideas of Computer Science coure available on-line as a self-study course.  The course includes some programming in Javascript, but all the in browser so you don't have to in ...

Resource - ericsonga - 28 Mar 2013 - 09:08 - 0 comments - 1 group

Scratch 2.0 Virtual Piano demo

Scratch 2.0 (currently in Beta as of today 1/29/2013) allows the user to have virtual objects and use their webcam to interact with them.  One example of this is a virtual piano keyboard which you can play:   See bit.ly/scratch2demo for a video showing how it can be used to play ...

Resource - reed - 10 Dec 2013 - 20:27 - 2 comments

Create an interactive story

In Scratch once conditionals and messages have been introduced you can ask the students to create an interactive story that has at least 2 different endings using at least one conditional (if).  You can use the ask "text" and wait block which i ...

Resource - ericsonga - 16 Jan 2013 - 15:13 - 0 comments - 1 group

Draw a house

Open ended assignments encourage creativity.  Once student have learned how to do simple drawing in Python using lines, rectangles, and circles they are asked to draw a house with at least one line, one rectangle, and one circle.  I have attached sample ...

Resource - ericsonga - 16 Jan 2013 - 13:44 - 3 comments - 1 group

Lo-Fi Prototyping

hands-on. I can use this in my web class. Also Also see  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0 ...

Resource - dyanek - 16 Jan 2013 - 16:08 - 3 comments - 3 groups

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