IB Year 2 Higher Level Computer Science

Thursday 22 August 2024 - Block 5
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Daily Note

Today we are going to setup our computers, bookmark some links, register for a bunch of websites, and generally prepare ourselves for our learning. We are also going to dig into higher level and lower level programming languages. 

  1. Please confirm you are on google classroom.
     
  2. Please bookmark the following sites: 
    1. https://computersciencewiki.org/index.php/Welcome
    2. SL students: https://courses.computersciencewiki.org/daily_notes.php?id=6
    3. HL students: https://courses.computersciencewiki.org/daily_notes.php?id=5
    4. https://faq.computersciencewiki.org/ (might not work)

       
  3. I changed our syllabus. DRAFT OF IA is due 18 October. 
     
  4. We are going to learn about:
     
    1. higher and lower level languages
    2. interpreted and compiled languages
       
  5. Please complete this survey

 

 

 

 

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:

Please read and follow these reminder

  1. IF today == Friday:
         careers_in_computing()