exploring-cs

STARS Exploring CS Spring 2017

STARS Exploring CS Curriculum

Course Description

Students will explore the essentials of computer science including: creativity of computing, processing of data, abstraction, managing complexity, computational thinking, algorithms, programming, debugging, and multimedia.

Course Documents

• Syllabus
• Topic List
• Final Project Information

Lessons

Week 1

Topics: Environment setup, using the reference, digital color, coordinate system

• Overview
• Exercises
• Homework: Personal Values
• Homework: Digitize an analog piece of art

Week 2

No class Wednesday, work day Friday to finish and submit Digitize

• Homework: Digitize an analog piece of art

Week 3

Topics: Programming flow, animation loops, methods, parameters, variables, max, min

• Overview
• Code
• Exercises
• Homework: Custom Lego Family

Week 4

Topics: Conditional statements, logical operators, events, mouseX, mouseY, mouesIsPressed, frameCount, random, dist, mousePressed, mouseReleased

• Overview
• Code
• Homework: Interactive Monster

Week 5

Topics: keyPressed events, for loops, using text and fonts, using images

• Overview
• Code
• Homework: Creativity Exploration

Week 6

Topics: Review for loops, while loops, arrays

• Overview
• Code
• Homework: Data Visualization

Week 7

Topics: Introduction to Object-oriented Programming (OOP), final project work time

• Overview
• Code
• Homework: Final Project

Week 8

Topics: Final project work time

• Homework: Final Project

Week 9

Topics: Final project work time, final project presentations

• Homework: Final Project