St. Perpetua Computer Science 2023–24

Link to this page: bit.ly/db-spjh Go to the latest lesson. Previous Years: 22–23, 21–22, 20–21, 19–20, 18–19

Classroom Resources and Self-Directed Learning Time Activities

• Google Classroom
• RoomHelper3000
• Student Progress Report
• Mr. Briccetti’s YouTube Channel with many programming lessons for you to explore on your own
• MakeCode
  • micro:bit
  • Circuit Playground Express
  • Arcade
• Block-based Programming Environments
  • MicroBlocks
  • Blockly Games
  • Snap!
    • Run Snap!
    • Snap! Reference Manual
    • Snap! Crash Course
    • “Why Do We Have to Learn This Baby Language?” from Brian Harvey, Teaching Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
• micro:bit Python editor
• Python Programming on repl.it
• p5.js
• Tinkercad
  • Circuits
  • Designs
  • Codeblocks
• Beauty and Joy of Computing Curricula
  • BJC Sparks for Middle School and Early High School
  • BJC for High School (you are free to explore this if you run out of things to do in the middle school curriculum)
• code.org
• Zooniverse
• Teachable Machine

First Day, 2023-08-17

Welcome to Computer Science

Join Your Class in Google Classroom

Computing in the News

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What do you want to learn this trimester?

Self-Directed Learning Time Activities

See Resources at the top of this page.

Before You Leave

• Log out
• Straighten up

2023-08-22

Computing in the News

Meet ‘Pibot,’ the humanoid robot that can safely pilot an airplane better than a human

Python Lesson

• Hello, world
• 2 six-sided dice throw
• 1–100 integer guessing game

2023-08-24

Computing in the News

Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight

Python Quiz

• Hello, world
• 2 six-sided dice throw

More Python

• 1–100 integer guessing game

2023-08-29

Computing in the News

Meet Apollo, the ‘iPhone’ of humanoid robots

Python Quiz

• Hello, world
• 2 six-sided dice throw

More Python

• List
  • A special type of object that stores multiple elements

teams = []  # Create an empty list and assign to teams
teams.append('Raiders')  # Add elements to the list
teams.append('Lions')
team = input('Team? ')   # Prompt for a team
teams.append(team)       # Add that team to the list

print(teams)

• Operators
  • = assignment operator
  • == equality operator
• Symbols
  • [] left and right square brackets, used with lists

Problems for more advanced students:

• Write a program that takes two numbers via the input function and prints their sum
• Write a program that determines whether a given number is even or odd
• Write a program that checks if a given character is a vowel (consider only ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, and ‘u’ as vowels).
• Given a list of numbers, calculate and print the average.

2023-08-31

Computing in the News

The Top Programming Languages 2023

Python Quiz

See Google Classroom

Solving Tuesday’s Advanced Problems

More Symbols

Learn before our next class.

• {} curly braces
• ! exclamation point
• @ at sign
• * asterisk
• - hyphen
• – en-dash
• — em-dash
• < less than, or open angle bracket
• ; semicolon
• : colon
• ’ single quote
• ” double quote