Designing Solutions Through Programming

Tuesday 20 August 2024 - Block 6
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Daily Note

Hello and welcome to class!!

 

We only have 20 minutes!

Odds are you don't have your computers yet. We will take attendance and I will make sure I pronounce your names correctly. 

I will show you some of classroom systems: 

  1. https://courses.computersciencewiki.org/
  2. https://lms.computersciencewiki.org
  1. We will review the rules in our classroom
     
  2. We will look at some sites students made last year
    1. book finder
    2. todo list
    3. book quiz
    4. ASW instagram
    5. guitar amp website
    6. Ukrainian help system
       
  3. Our definition of learning: Learning is growth from where you are to where you want to go.
     
  4. We will review our learning

Your homework for today: 

  1. Please think about your learning goals. You should have 2 or 3 goals. I will ask you to share your learning goals with our class when we meet again.

 

Our Big idea

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.



Reminders & routines:

IF (this_block == first_block_day) {
     read_daily_bulletin;
}

IF (today == Friday) {
     computing_careers()
}

As I am taking attendance:

  1. For students who are physically at ASW: Please check now: am I connected to the American School of Warsaw wireless network
  2. Please check now: is visual studio code working from my programming folder?

To remember: 

  1. All the files you need for this course can be found at this link. Please pay attention to the time the file was last updated. 
  2. You can access a web-based view of your database by clicking this link.
  3. Please be aware of course videos to help you understand our content.