week1

STARS Exploring CS

Week 1

Prep Work

• Review the syllabus
• Complete the course survey
• Join our slack team

Goals

• Learn about the course and expectations
• Start learning the fundamentals of programming
• Practice using the reference
• Understand and be able to write code to draw shapes, and use different colors

Warm up

• Introductions
• Syllabus review

Lessons

• Environment setup
• How to use the reference
• Digital color
• Coordinate system

Exercises

• Building a robot
  • Given the code for a black/white robot; add a customized color scheme and adjust to make it your own
  • Practice using the reference
  • Practice using RGB color values
  • Understand programming flow
• Taijitu
  • Create a Taijitu using only ellipses and a single rectangle
  • Problem solving practice

Debrief

• What new things did you learn today?
• What topics are you still struggling with?
• What did you especially enjoy about today's class?
• What can be improved for future classes?

Homework

• Personal values Due Tuesday, April 4th, 9:00pm
• Digitize an analog piece of art Due Friday, April 7th, 9:00pm