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IB Year 1 Higher Level Computer Science

Monday 22 August 2022 - Block 1
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Daily Note

  1. Welcome!
     
  2. We will take attendance
     
  3. I will look at your homework
    1. I will be incorporating good changes into my master branch for our procedural generator
    2. We will discuss some of the features of this file 
       
  4. We will look at our daily notes a bit more carefully. 
     
  5. I will introduce a new resource: our classroom library
    1. I will explain some stuff about our library:
      1. it is for in-school use only
      2. you must not ever share any resources outside of our class
      3. you must delete any reources after you end your time in my class

         
  6. We will watch a 1:30 video about homebrew
  7. We will install homebrew
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    --probably break--
     
  8. We will review our learning from last class: 
    1. what are the essential features of a computer language?
    2. explain the need for higher level languages.
  9. We will start our programming journey!
    1. We will watch a short video about Python 
    2. We use python in this course
    3. We will learn how to read error messages in Python
       
  10. If you are new to programming: Homework will be all the challenges in objective 1
     
  11. If you are an experienced python programmer: 
    1. please download this PDF file from our library
    2. please read the section entitled Python culture (PDF page 59, book page 34)
    3. Please complete problem set classic warm up

 

Statement of Inquiry

The big idea for today is Course orientation.

The essential questions for this topic are:

What do I need to know, understand and do to be prepared for this class?

It takes time to explore and really understand a big idea. If you want to
learn more about course orientation (which is connected to today's daily note), please click here .

We are learning this because as a designers must understand scientific and technical innovation. Designers use systems, models, methods, and processes to solve problems.



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Reminders & routines:

Please read and follow these reminders:

  1. IF this_class == first_class_of_day:
         read_daily_bulletin()
     
  2. IF today == Friday:
         careers_in_computing()

 

Our learning

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Please click here to reflect on our learning for today's class.