Month: November 2016

We will meet in the board room at 25N at 5:45 tonight.

Tonight’s Agenda: JavaScript and Fun with Makey Makey!

• Computer Science Concept: Lists/Arrays
• Lists in Scratch: we will look at the example developed by Robin: Personal Acronym Assistant for Texting that uses Parallel Arrays
• JavaScript Part 3:
  • Arrays: Create the acronym assistant program using JavaScript
  • JSFiddle: an introduction to this environment
    • Create a simple Fiddle that uses JavaScript to do something based on which key is pressed https://jsfiddle.net/endlessLoop/5t8kLmjk/
    • Use Makey Makey for the input device!
    • Make up some interesting code for the Makey Makey to execute!
• Notes for tonight: FVGCC JavaScript Part 3
• AP Computer Science Principles Sample Exam Question # 22 from: https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-computer-science-principles-course-and-exam-description.pdf

We will meet in the board room at 25N at 5:45 tonight.

Tonight’s Agenda:

• Brief review of last meeting
• Web Chat with DePaul University women
• JavaScript Part 2:
  • Use of the Developer Console for writing and testing JavaScript
  • Conditionals
  • Concatenation
  • Prompt for Input
  • Alerts to display popup messages
• Notes for tonight: FVGCC JavaScript Part 2
• AP Sample Exam Question # 1 from:  http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-computer-science-a-course-description.pdf

Consider the following code segment.

for (int k = 0); k < 20; k = k + 2)

{

if (k  % 3) == 1)

{

      System.out.print (k + “  “)’

}

}

What is printed as a result of executing the code segment?

(A)   4 16

(B)   4 10  16

(C)   0 6  12  18

(D)   1 4  7  10  13  16  19

(E)  0 2  4  6  8  10  12  14  16  18

We will meet in the board room at 25N at 5:45 tonight.

Tonight’s Agenda:

• NCWIT Awards: NCWIT Aspirations Awards Site
  • Deadline for application is Monday November 7th
  • Deadline for educator recommendations and parent approval is Monday November 14th
• Introduction to JavaScript
  • A first look at the text-based programming language JavaScript
  • Used extensively in Web development
  • Not a “standalone” language but for learning purposes we will use the programming platform at  Khan Academy Programming Course
• Basic JavaScript Syntax
• Variables in JavaScript
• Operators in JavaScript

Notes: Introduction to JavaScript