Units of Study
Unit 1 - The Internet - code.org - homework & classwork
Class Discussions
What is the Internet?
How does Google search? How does google search?
History of the Internet. Internetsociety.org
How the Internet works. - Nick Parlante's Stanford CS101
Where the Internet was born. - UCLA
Tech News - ACM
Super Computing TED Talk - Pete Beckman
BioComputing - Cell as a computer
Steve Wozniack - Biography
The Father of Fractals - Big Brains, Small Films
Gorilla Glass - Article
How does Google Translate work? (2 min)
Machine Learning - can a machine learn?
Net Neutrality - FCC Ske
Weaponized Web? - Tim Berners-Lee
NEW Web - Time Berners-Lee
Unit 2 - Digital Information - code.org - homework & classwork
Class Discussions
Blown to Bits - download book & read - read & report schedule
What is digital information? Center for Digital Information
Unit 3 - Algorithms and Abstractions.
An algorithm is a procedure (a code/a set of instructions) that solves a problem or executes a task.
An abstraction is a simplification to make a task easier for the user and/or programmer to understand or do a task.
Example: code is an abstraction of binary.
"Another Example:"
is an abstraction of html code
<div style="font-size:13.3333px">"Another Example:" is an abstraction of </div>
- Algorithms and Programming , Abstractions
Algorithm Video 1
What is an Algorithm? - Khan Academy
Algorithms - crash course
What is an Abstraction? code expanse
Abstraction - nerd first
Abstraction - hiding a background process
Do all beginner quizzes
Unit 4 - Big Data and Privacy
Unit 5 - Building Apps
Unit 6 - Create and Explore: Performance Tasks - see code.org
8 Variables Video (PLTW)
8 variables quizlet
Big Data - New Institute of Computing
Internet of Things (IoT) - James Whitaker
GitHub
Blockchains
Introduction - MIT Technology Review
60 Minutes - intro
Blockchain Massively Simplified - TED Talk
Blockchain Monitoring Website (https://www.blockchain.com/)
Blockchain is the next big thing.
Video - Blockchain Ledger
Video - Blockchain Hash
Video - Blockchain Explained
Video - Blockchain Miners
Video - Bettina Warburg
Video - Don Tapscott