STARS Exploring CS Spring 2017
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.
Topics: Environment setup, using the reference, digital color, coordinate system
No class Wednesday, work day Friday to finish and submit Digitize
Topics: Programming flow, animation loops, methods, parameters, variables, max, min
Topics: Conditional statements, logical operators, events, mouseX, mouseY, mouesIsPressed, frameCount, random, dist, mousePressed, mouseReleased
Topics: keyPressed events, for loops, using text and fonts, using images
Topics: Review for loops, while loops, arrays
Topics: Introduction to Object-oriented Programming (OOP), final project work time
Topics: Final project work time
Topics: Final project work time, final project presentations