CS Methods Jan 29 2015

School visits - thoughts beyond and including your D2L posting???

RWL - so what about  Fun Programming with “Processing”

• credibility and reliability????

MB CS curriculum guide and the SY ICT Framework - from Man Ed

- new ideas about GLOs 1 - 3

  - GLO 4 - technology

  - what's typical, what's unusual

 - does the sequence make sense? What alternate sequence could you use?

 - is it just another math course?

Intro to Computer Science by David Evans - read the intro and then check the TOC for the List of Explorations (after the index).

Textbooks - table of contents - is this the curriculum? Free texts

https://www.google.ca/search?q=computer+science+textbook+pdf&oq=computer+science+text&aqs=chrome.2.0j69i57j0l4.5223j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8

So - how should we get them started with CS?

Computer science Unplugged??

What are different ways of getting them used to code?

• No typing - Scratch, Kodu, etc

• Give code with blanks to fill in

• Give code with simple errors

• Use templates that they can adapt

Remember

This is not just another math course!

x we need other examples and graphics and movement and sound and ..........

x CS language skills / social skills / problem solving skills

x different aspects of CS - what should they know?

**** Using video or eduCreations or Lensoo Create or screen capture or ... record an explanation of recursion in a 90 second clip.

17 coding apps

Processing links:

Fun Programming with “Processing”

and read

Information Age Education newsletter - Computer and Information Science - Credibility and Reliability