CompSci//Media Arts - Start S2/Q3

Starting S2/Q3

Today's Goal

Start & Setup for the new 9 Weeks.
Play Light-bot.

Completed

Basics of HTML & CSS
Block-based Programming

Today

Typing Benchmark
Slides & Organization
Light-Bot

Upcoming

Reflection
Revisiting Portfolios
JavaScript

I hope you had a wonderful holiday.

Welcome to the 2nd semester.

As you continue progressing through school, consider continuing your education in Computer Science regardless of what industry you are interested in. Just about every industry interacts with computing, and so regardless of your ultimate goal, you can benefit from being well-versed in computing and programming.

The intended next course is CS1 and CS2 in 9th & 10th grade. In 11th and 12th grade, you can take Diploma-level Computer Science or you can also take the Cybersecurity courses at the Guthrie Center.

Slides for the Week

We will continue the same organization scheme we used before the break; keeping the week's work in slides.

Make a copy of these slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ciwYLVux_5xvoeGVrl976oaKgFbCFlDdPDjFDk3CvH8/edit?usp=sharing

In your Google Drive, you should have a shared folder for this class; it should have folders for the 1st Quarter & 2nd Quarter in it. Today is the 1st day of the 3rd Quarter.

If you don't have a folder for the 3rd Quarter already, add one.
These slides should go in there.

Typing Practice

It's probably been a few weeks since you did much typing.
Do you think you might be a bit out of practice?

We did the benchmark before break, let's see if being out of school has made you a bit rusty.

Let's start our semester with the benchmark today:
https://shaunwegs.github.io/2024/focs/typing/d/8-21.html

In addition to adding today's stats to the regular spot in your Typing Log, you should also add it to your spot for Benchmarks. Right now, it should three dates; August 21st, October 15th, and December 11th.

Today is the fourth benchmark, so add one for Jan. 7th and put todays WPM there.

Add a screenshot showing your updated benchmarks to your slide for today.

Gentle Re-entry to Programming

Play light-bot; the original, the sequel, and/or the new version.
https://shaunwegs.github.io/lightbot/index.html

If you get stuck, try one of the other two versions.

How far can you get?
Take a screenshot of how far you make it through the game.
Save a little time to add stuff to your slide at the end of class.

On your slide for today:

Provide a screenshot showing how far you were able to get in whichever version or versions you decided to play.

Discuss the following:

What are your thoughts on Light-bot? Did you enjoy it? Was it challenging at times?
How does light-bot relate to programming?