Week of January 31st to February 3rd

 

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2023!

Tuesday:

Welcome!
Discuss rules and expectations

Course outline

Current events assignment

"Good Questions" homework for Monday.

Here is the main presentation from today (ctemc.org login required)  

Wednesday:

• bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet
• Logic Puzzle
• Failure or Success?
• Learn anything
• Begin Ones and zeros - Binary numbers
• Kahn Academy
  
• take this survey to help me know a little about you
• Google slides - Binary numbers

Thursday:

• Please bring back the "Acknowledgement Form".
   
  

  First we will complete whatever is left from Thursday's class up through the slides on binary search.  You have a number of upcoming assignments to work on in any time remaining:

  • Your 'Introduce Yourself with FlipGrid' assignment is due by Friday evening so that I have a chance to look at them all over the weekend.
  • Do first two units from Khan Academy CS Principles, 'Bits and Bytes' and 'Binary Numbers', and take Quiz #1 before class on Monday.
  • 'Ask some good questions' is due Wednesday 9/15.
  • 'Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy are also for Tuesday.
  • Finally, remember that group 1 will do current events next Wednesday.

Friday:

Finished Ones and Zeros Kahn assignments and Kahn 1st quiz

"Acknowledgement Form" if not turned in, Do So. 

Complete binary/hex numbers discussion.

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
What is Unicode?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
Audacity - free audio software
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Friday

Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy due for today.

Week of January 3rd to January 6th

 

Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2022!

Monday:

• No School

Tuesday:

• Review and continue Python slides.
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Wednesday:

• Group 2 must turn in current events on November 23rd and January 4th:

  P1: Emily, Rianna, Samantha, Mehreen, Varsha

  P2: Yassine, Max, Carinna, Ved

   
  Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Thursday:

Python code CMU

Friday:

Begin new unit: "Introduction to AI and Robotics"
Essential Questions:

• Can a computer be intelligent?  Have feelings? Be conscious?  Are there limitations on what a computer can do?
• How are 'intelligent' machines changing the world?

Homework: "Thinking about AI"  due at beginning of class.

Begin AI/Robotics videos, as time allows:

• "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode) (52:14)
• Dancing Sony Robots (3:26)
• High Speed Robotic Hand (3:00)
• The Latest Version of the LittleDog Robot (2:17)
• Introducing Spot (2:15)
• Testing Robustness (1:03)
• Atlas, the Next Generation (2:41)
• What's new, Atlas? (0:57)
• Parkour Atlas (0:30)
• Introducing Handle (1:36)
• Sebastian Thrun - Google's Driverless Car (4:14)
• MIT's Nexi MDS Robot - First Test of Expression (1:12)
• How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence? (PBS) (9:03)
• Google Duplex - haircut appointment (2:10)
• Google Duplex - restaurant reservation (0:54)
• Humans Need Not Apply (15:00) It's the end of the world. . .
• How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence? (Vox) (7:52) or maybe not. . .

some extras:

• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course (11:50) Great approachable but not dumbed-down introduction to some aspects of machine learning.
• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)
• RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)
• "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert fromStanford) (16:26)