Friday, January 8, 2021

Week of January 11th - 15th, 2021

Monday:
I expect you to have completed CMU Unit 7.3 Step Events and started 7.4 by the end of today's class.

Introduce Soldering (optional): 
Discuss basic electronics - circuits, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors
Read 'Soldering is Easy' handout
 
Tuesday:
I expect you to have completed CMU Unit 7.4 Libraries by the end of today's class.
Optional soldering lab for cohort A students

Wednesday:
I expect you to have completed 
CMU Unit 7.5 Using Media and 2 points worth of exercises from 7.6 by the end of today's class.

Thursday:
Optional soldering lab for cohort B students
Introduce the final project.  Begin working on design document.
Please enter your name (and your partner, if any) in this spreadsheet.  When you have an idea what you want to build, enter that here too.  Also, make a shared google doc for your team, give me editor access, and enter a link to it in the spreadsheet as well.  This will be the document you use as your journal, and it should have an entry for every class day until you submit your project.

Friday:
I will grade your Unit 7 work this morning before class begins
Everyone working on the design document for the final project.  It's due by Tuesday morning at the beginning of class.  Once you have submitted your design, you can go ahead and start on the actual programming.  Remember to include a brief journal entry for every day you are doing programming, as described in the project description.