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IB Year 1 Higher Level Computer Science

Friday 23 August 2024 - Block 1
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Daily Note

Today we will: 

  1. Review your survey results
     
  2. Try to register for our class LMS, if it works, I'll give you a tour.
     
  3. Today is Friday, and normally, we discuss careers in computing, but I'd like to keep our initial track going. 
     
  4. Look more closely at our daily notes 
     
  5. Learn a bit more our IDE and python 
     
  6. We will talk a little about computational thinking. 
     

Mr. Baumgarten is a great computer science teacher. I've used this material from his site: 

1. Decomposition - Can I divide this into sub-problems?

2. Pattern recognition - Can I find repeating patterns?

3. Abstraction - Can I generalise this to make an overall rule?

4. Algorithm design - Can I design the programming steps for any of this?

 

 

Statement of Inquiry

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.



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Reminders & routines:

Please read and follow these reminders:

  1. IF this_class == first_class_of_day:
         read_daily_bulletin()
     
  2. IF today == Friday:
         careers_in_computing()

 

Our learning

This is a beta feature. Please let me know if you have any feedback.

Please click here to reflect on our learning for today's class.