Typing Practice

Today's typing practice:

https://shaunwegs.github.io/2024/focs/typing/d/9-17.html

Yesterday, I asked y'all to think a bit about what you want to do with your future. That's a big ask for someone who's not in high school yet.

What if you don't know what you want to do?
If you aren't really sure what direction you want to go in, courses in computer science, IT, and digital media are still great options. Computers and technology have disrupted just about every industry. There are very few jobs that don't use some form of technology, and very few industries that haven't entirely changed due to technology. Through these courses, you'll get experience with a wide variety of software tools, as well as learn a lot about computing in general. Regardless of where you end up, both of these will likely be beneficial.  Art, agriculture, medicine, communication, game design, and so on, and so on, and so on.

Some, like cyber security and data science are heavily dependent on computing and computer science, others like fashion and music may be lesser so- but computing technology interacts with all of them, and knowledge and familiarity with software from Digital Media courses is also beneficial. Computer Science specifically is a great course for the job market, but also for academics. If you are interested in any STEM area, computer science is relevant. Scientists, mathematicians, and engineers all write code at times, at least at university if not in their job (they probably work with people who write code if they don't directly, and they still use tech).

The Computer Science pathway is beneficial for both university and industry, without limiting yourself. Colleges and universities consider Computer Science to be a high-level and rigorous academic course, and the number of job opportunities related to computing is continually expanding. Everything is affected by computing, software, and computer science today. Continuing your study in any of these pathways is beneficial for just about any future.

What's comes next?

The intended next course after Principles of IT is Computer Maintenance at Guthrie in 10th grade. However, this course also connects to the Computer Science pathway (which also leads to the Cyber Security options). A fair number of students take Computer Science 1 and then switch into Computer Maintenance, as the two courses do support each other. Students interested in the IB CP may continue at Guthrie after, those interested in the IB DP program may only do Computer Maintenance in 10th grade, and then do the IB DP program in 11th and 12th (which can still include Computer Science, just not the Guthrie options).

On your slide for today:

We're going to add a screenshot of our first webpage to our slides for today. Your page should have the title in an h1 element, a sentence below that, and should make use of color for the background and the text.

You should be able to do all of this if you followed along with the videos.

Add the screenshot to today's slide.

More about color codes...

Understanding color codes takes time and can be tricky. Let's try to further our understanding of them.

Now that you've had a refresher on color codes, can you correctly guess today's Hexle? https://www.thehexle.io/

Next, see how high you can score on this Hex Color activity with your remaining class time: https://color-exercise.netlify.app/

Add a screenshot of your score to today's slide.