Week of February 1st - 5th, 2016: Welcome!

Monday:
Who Are You? - a survey to help me know a little about you
Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment
Give out Good Questions assignment, start in class - due Wednesday

Tuesday:
(Students should have registered for turnitin by today)
Introduce binary/hex numbers
From Datascience@Berkeley: Data Size Matters
Give out binary/hex worksheet

Wednesday:
("Good Questions" homework due)
(Binary numbers worksheet due)
Complete binary/hex numbers discussion
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Video: Autotune on Nova

Thursday:
(Give out internet vocab sheet, due Monday)
Complete discussion of digital representation of sounds, images, and CAT scans.
Video: Let's Enhance
Gigapixel images

Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Video: The Lighting of the Beacons

Friday:
Continue discussion of internet history and technology
Video: What is Information Theory?
Video: Morse code and the information age
Video: Warriors of the Net

For Monday: Internet vocab, also read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.

Also remember, the following people have a current event due next week:
P1: Juliana, Emily, Kristen, Alexander, Edward
P2: Keely, Abigail, Katelin, Lauren, Neha

Week of January 25th - 29th, 2016

Monday:
Snow day. . . 
Here is the link to The Guy Under The Car.

Tuesday:
Loop worksheet due - we will review it in class.
Continue to work on Pong game.
Students who have completed Pong will explore additional Processing features:

• Image Processing
• Fonts and Text
• Word Processing
• The 3rd Dimension
• Video Processing

plus the many, many cool programs at FunProgramming.org.

Give out review sheet for final exam on Friday.

Wednesday:
Group 2 current events:
P1: Zachary K, Michael, Emily, Juliet, Varoon, Noel, Eesha, Elena, Alex
P2: Jess, Reese, Karly, Ian, Katharine, Mayuri, Deven, Arianna, Stacy
Opportunity to ask questions for test on Friday.

Last class time to work on Pong game.
Those who have finished should spend remaining time experimenting with Processing - see links under Tuesday's entry.

Thursday:
Pong game due by the end of lunch period.
Opportunity to ask questions for test on Friday.
Recap the big ideas of the course.

Watch Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address.

Friday:

Final exam, 8:27 - 10:29, in the media center.

Week of January 18th - 22nd, 2016

Mon:
No school, MLK's birthday.

Tuesday:
AI/Robotics presentations begin. You must either email me your powerpoint file, or share a link to your Google Slides presentation by 5 AM on Tuesday morning.  Everyone must be ready to go at the beginning of class.

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events can be handed in:
P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vish, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matt, Bryan, Alex
Continue with AI/Robotics presentations.

Thursday:

Complete AI/Robotics presentations, if necessary.

Use remaining time to work on Pong challenges.

Work on Loop Worksheet (due Monday, Jan 25th) if done with Pong.

Friday:

Rutgers testing, no regular class

Week of January 11th - 15th, 2016

Monday:
First processing sketch due at beginning of class

Continue with Processing  - conditionals, variables, arrays, loops

Tuesday:
Read "The Way of the Program" for today
Continue with Processing  - conditionals, variables, arrays, loops

Wednesday:
Group 2 current events
P1: Zachary K, Michael, Emily, Juliet, Varoon, Noel, Eesha, Elena, Alex
P2: Jess, Reese, Karly, Ian, Katharine, Mayuri, Deven, Arianna, Stacy

Complete discussion of Processing loops, pass out loop homework (due Mon, Jan 25th)

Introduce Pong game

Thursday:
Everybody working on  Pong game

Friday:
Professional day for Mr. J.

Everybody working on Pong game.  You can work on your presentations if you finish.

AI/Robotics presentations will begin on Tuesday, Jan 19th.  You must either email me your powerpoint file, or share a link to your Google Slides presentation by 5 AM on Tuesday morning.