CS 1025 01 - Week #2 (Jan 18-20)

Wednesday, January 18th

1. Assignnment #1: Ghostbusters/Coaching the Artist Within due today.

       Note #1:  The assignment can be hand-written with ink or pencil but it can be partly
                 or all word processed if you prefer that.
   
       Note #2:  You received the Coaching The Artist Within during class #2 last Wednesday.
   

2. Ghostbusters and problem solving resource.

Friday, January 20th

1. Assignment #2; Monty Hall game assignment is due anytime today.

2. About Scratch overview and video demo. Fun video is 1 minute 37 seconds long. Watch it!

   With Scratch, you can program your own 
             interactive stories, 
                    games, and 
                           animations 
                                  and share your creations with others 
                                               in the online community.
   Scratch helps young people learn to 
               think creatively, 
                       reason systematically, 
                                 and work collaboratively - essential skills 
                                                for life in the 21st century.
   
   Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group 
                       at the MIT Media Lab.   It is provided free of charge.
   

3. Scratch and dancing cats - drawing a square with cat instead of turtle. SCRATCH.MIT.EDU

4. Scratch Resources and links and examples.

5. New Example created on IEE and IE: Scratchy the Cat Dancing tutorial results.

6. The Data Flyer tool from SHODOR. What is the SLOPE? What is the INTERCEPT?
   y = mx + b is the equation for a line.

7. Tri to use Scratchy the Cat and a Cowbell as the actors to teach triangles RIGHT: Scratch and NetLOGO turtle graphics triangle terminology
   Legs, Hypotenuses, Right Triangles, where is Waldo in Cartesian coordinated 2D space?
   Needs more cowbell, but has some at least!
   Adjacent leg, Opposite leg, and Hypotenuse of one of the acute angles or a right triangle.
   SOH, CAH, TOA acronyms... Coming soon to our NetLogo lessons.

8. Here is a JOKE or POEM example done with Scratch. Have you heard this joke/poem before. I found it in my STANTZ22 account.