Week of October 25th - October 29th, 2021

 

Monday:

Work on CMU CS Academy

You should have completed CMU CS Academy Section 1.2.6. Exercises by end of school day today.  I will grade you on each of the CMU assignments as homework. I will enter your grades based on your progress as of 9 pm (the day it is due), unless I hear from you via email before then that you need more time.

Video: Why learn to code?

 

 A worthwhile video Be kind and respect each other

 

 

Tuesday:

 

1.3.1: Rectangles, Ovals, Circles, and Lines

1.3.2: Exercises

1.3.3: Labels

1.3.4: Exercises

 Due end of day Wednesday

Use the remaining time for CMU CS Academy work.

Wednesday: 

 

Current Events group #3 due today:
P1: Precious, Devon, Madeline
P2: Tara, Marcus, Rishi, Dev, Naren
Remember to enter your topic in the spreadsheet and be sure no one else from your period is already doing it.

Use the remaining time for CMU CS Academy work.

Thursday:

1.3.5: Regular Polygons and Stars

1.3.6: Exercises

Due end of day Friday

Use the remaining time for CMU CS Academy work.

Friday:

CMU CS Academy work. 

I will enter your grades based on your progress as of 9 pm Sunday, unless I hear from you via email before then that you need more time.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of October 18th - October 22nd, 2021

 Monday:

Computer Pioneers paper due by 7:30 AM

Presentations for the Pioneer project begin

Tuesday:

 

Finish Presentations for the Pioneer project begin

 A worthwhile video Be kind and respect each other

Video: Why learn to code?

For today's class, please register with the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Academy using the correct link for your period.

 

Period 1 CMU CS Academy
Period 2 CMU CS Academy

 

For your username, please use the first 4 letters of your last name

Click here to log in to the CMU CS Academy

Wednesday:
Current Events group #4 due today:
P1: Sophie, Emily, Rachel, Elijah, Gavin
P2: Mackenzie, Salome, Dean, Jacob, Vanessa
Remember to enter your topic in the spreadsheet and be sure no one else from your period is already doing it.

 

Work with CMU CS Academy

Thursday:

Work with CMU CS Academy

Friday:

 

Finish Current Event Presentations

Discuss Grit video

Go over the CMU CS portal

 A worthwhile video Be kind and respect each other

Video: Why learn to code?

Week of October 11th - October 15th, 2021

 Monday:

Columbus Day

No class

Tuesday:

Homework for today:

 Review for the test

• 5 more bad viruses video
• Bulletin board

Wednesday:

Homework for today

No Class due to PSAT testing

Thursday:
Homework for today

• Group 1 current events:
  P1: Kayla, Joseph, Kristen, Morgan, Brent
  P2: Janat, Makena, Vishruth, Caitlin, Jayden

Finish review for Test

The Web and Cloud slide presentation

Friday:

Homework for today

• Test on Binary/Internet/Security and malware

Week of October 4th - October 8th, 2021

Monday:

No class due to NJSLA testing

Slide show for security/malware/privacy

Tuesday:

Homework for today: Khan Academy: 

 

Begin unit 3: Basic principles of computer security, malware, privacy, and cyberwar.

Essential Questions:

• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our personal safety and privacy?
• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our national security?

Discussion: how have you been affected by computer security issues?

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Ransomeware

5 bad viruses - video

WiFi - safe?

Wednesday:
Group 4 current events:
P1: Alana, Kylie, Dhriti, Fomon
P2: Anya, Avijit, Carolyn, Sreeja, Alice

Homework for today is to read the following: (it looks like a lot but these are short):

• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)  (If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, delete your wired.com cookies, or try a different browser.)
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)
• New Jersey hospital chain pays attackers to thwart ransomware incident (2019)

Thursday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks)
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• What is a keylogger?
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (2018)
  

Examples of Phishing attempts

 

Google phishing quiz

Spyware and Keylogging video

Location Tracking video

Smart TV ...

Identity theft video

Medical identity theft

Friday:

Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History (2018 - long but worthwhile) (This one has a really bad word, repeated three times. I wish people wouldn't do that, because outside of that it tells an important story really well.) If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, or try a different browser.
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016) . (try this link if the other isn't working. . . )

Review vocab words we have not gotten to

Scareware/Hoax (Craig Shergold)

Zombies and botnet

Cyberwar - NotPetya Video

Stuxnet: Computer worm

Power Grid - video

Solarwinds/Orion

5 more bad viruses video