Welcome to
AP Computer Science Principles
Welcome
Back!
I
Hope all of you had a Safe and Enjoyable Summer!
This week we are going to be working on the following:
Introduction
to AP Computer Science Principles Class
Introduction
to Unit 1: The Internet
Introduction
to Unit 6: AP Exam and Performance Task
To Think; To Develop Problem-Solving Skills; To Discover; and To
Create;
Learning
to Compute and Computing to Learn
Classroom
Protocol:
This is where you will come every day to find out what we are
going to do in class for that day. Every day you are to come to your Quia class
web page upon arriving to class, go to your class web page, and follow the
directions for today.
Homework
Policy:
All assignments will be due on the deadline date given. It is the
responsibility for all students to complete their assignments on time. Any
assignments received late will not be accepted and a grade will not be given for
that assignment.
Accessing
your Class Weekly Agenda:
Each
week’s agenda and assignments will be updated and posted on your Quia class
web page on a weekly basis. Previous
weeks Assignments/Agendas will be provided with a link at the end of the current
week’s Class Web Page in case you need to revisit due to an absence, or
you’re required to make up, or catch up on your course assignments.
Homework Assignment: Daily homework assignments may be found at the end of each
day’s agenda. Daily Journal Entries as seen in Daily
Ticket to Leave are to be entered as part of your daily homework. All
students will receive a homework grade on a weekly basis, and your journal will
receive a project grade each mid-term and final semester.
Summer Assignment: If you
have not already submitted your AP Summer Assignment please join your AP CSP
Google classroom and click on assignment to submit your summer assignment.
Thanks
IMPORTANT DATES:
Explore Performance Task: 8
hours
To
Be Completed by December 20, 2018
This
Week’s Agenda:
Introduction to AP Computer Science Principles:
Classroom
Protocol, Electronic Portfolio - Journal Setup, Creation of QUIA.com and Google
Classroom accounts, code.org and khanacademy.org, Introductions, Beginning of
Unit 1 and Unit 6
Review
course syllabus, explore task requirements, artifact tools, rubric, summer
assignments. Weekly class participation grade, homework grade (journal), online
quizzes quia and code.org, review with kahoot
UNIT 1 Overview: The Internet:
This
unit explores the technical challenges and questions that arise from the need to
represent digital information in computers and transfer it between people and
computational devices. The unit then explores the structure and design of the
internet and the implications of those design decisions.
In
this unit students learn how computers represent all kinds of information and
how the Internet allows that information to be shared with millions of people.
The
first chapter explores the challenges and questions that arise when representing
information in a computer or sending it from one computer to another. It begins
by investigating why on-off signals, also known as binary signals, are used to
represent information in a computer. It then introduces the way common
information types like text and numbers are represented using these binary
signals. Finally, it illustrates the importance of establishing shared
communication rules, or protocols, for successfully sending and receiving
information.
In
the second chapter, students learn how the design of the internet allows
information to be shared across billions of people and devices. Making frequent
use of the Internet Simulator, they explore the problems the original designers
of the internet had to solve and then students “invent” solutions. To
conclude the unit, students research a modern social dilemma driven by the
ubiquity of internet and the way it works.
Chapter 1: Representing and Transmitting Information
Big Questions
Enduring Understandings
·
2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon
binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.
·
3.3 There are trade-offs when representing
information as digital data.
·
6.2 Characteristics of the Internet
influence the systems built on it.
·
7.2 Computing enables innovation in nearly
every field.
Chapter 2: Inventing the Internet
Big Questions
Enduring Understandings
·
2.1 A variety of abstractions built upon
binary sequences can be used to represent all digital data.
·
6.1 The Internet is a network of
autonomous systems.
·
6.2 Characteristics of the Internet
influence the systems built on it.
·
7.3 Computing has a global affect -- both
beneficial and harmful -- on people and society.
UNIT 6: AP Performance Tasks
·
This unit contains lessons to help students with
preparation and execution of the AP® Performance Tasks: Create and Explore
·
The lessons in this unit are meant to be taken
piecemeal rather than as a typical unit sequence. Instead of a sequence of
connected lessons, these represent a more modular breakdown of the things you
need to do to:
1) Understand the AP Performance Tasks
2) Make a plan for completing the tasks in the
time allotted and
3) Actually doing the tasks and submitting
Tuesday
Day A - 8-28-18 – Friday Day D – 8-31-2018
CI -
Community, Global, and Ethical Impacts
7.1 -
Computing enhances communication, interaction, and cognition.
7.2 -
Computing enables innovation in nearly every field.
7.3 -
Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and harmful -- on people and
society.
7.4 - Computing innovations influence and are influenced by the
economic, social, and cultural contexts in which they are designed and used.
Activator:
Review
the Standards, Objectives, and Thinking Practices above for today’s lesson.
Objective:
Today
we will review school wide behavioral expectations and understand the Classroom
Protocol and all that it entails. Together we will learn the appropriate care
and use of your
computer lab equipment, review our goals for the year, and perform the necessary
setup tasks that will support the success of our goals.
1) Introduction
1. About Mr. PC
2. Review of Classroom protocol – QUIA – Anatomy of Class Web Page
3. Class expectations and Grading – Letter to Parents
4. Weekly vocabulary Quizzes
5. Seating Plans and Computer assignments
6. Summer Assignments
7. Classroom accounts and preparation – Join Quia, Google Classroom, Code.org, Khanacademy,org, creation of engineering notebook or journal for daily reflection
8.
Review
the AP CSP Syllabus with Students
9. Review of Unit 6 with focus on preparation for Explore Performance Task
NOTE:
Labs
this week will be used to explore the explore performance task rubric,
requirements, and look at student summer assignments.
AP CSP: What we will
be studying and why …
Guided Practice Day 1:
Log
into your computer using your school issued account:
1)
Joining
your AP CSP Google Classroom. This is where all classroom projects and
assignments outside of the code.org classroom will be submitted:
a.
Log
into your school Google Account using your school issued email.
b.
Go
to the Classroom App
c.
Join
the AP CSP classroom with the following code:
exevt4r
2)
Create
student Quia.com accounts.
a.
For
creation of Quia.com accounts you will be asked to come up to my desk.
b.
While
you are waiting to be called to my desk complete the steps below and please do
the following:
c.
Click
on the ‘Engineering Notebook or journal’ assignment in your Google
Classroom. Create a file “Google Docs” to be used as your Engineering
Notebook. You will not submit this assignment until the end of the year. Once you create I
will have access to your journal and the journal will be checked and be part of
your weekly homework grade. You will receive a project grade for your
“Journal” on a mid-term and end of semester basis.
d.
Once
you have created your engineering notebook please put in today’s date and
provide the following information.
Prepare a short introduction about yourself: What is your name,
what would you like to learn in computer science class, what type of career are
you interested in? Do you have any initial questions or concerns about AP
Computer Science? Share any and all information about yourself that you would
like to share.
e.
Once
your Quia account has been created open Google Chrome and click on the following
link: www.quia.com/profiles/mrpc
,
scroll to the bottom of the page where it says classes, click on your class web
page uniquely identified as AP Computer Science,
and make sure that your account works.
If
you have finished preparation of your short introduction you may continue with
the account creations shown in the following steps. When all is complete you may
look through your Quia class web page in order to familiarize yourself with the
class web page format and Unit 1: The Internet.
3)
Creating
Code.org accounts
a.
For
creation of code.org accounts and joining my online class go to https://studio.code.org
and create an account. Make sure you use your First
and Last Name as your Username
then
i.
Join your AP CSP section by clicking or typing the following URL
into your browser or by adding the code where it says enter class code to join.
Your class code is SGGFPH.
http://studio.code.org/join/SGGFPH
NOTE:
You the student should see a small green bar at the top of your page that says
‘You’ve successfully joined …’.
4)
Joining
Khanacademy.org classroom
a.
Click on the following link: www.khanacademy.org
b.
Create an account using your school issued email or the same
email you are using to access Google Classroom
c.
For your User Name make sure you use your First and Last name
d.
Join your khanAcademy classroom using the following code:
Class Code:
DRVHRKA5
5)
If
not yet completed submit your summer assignment to the classroom summer
assignment task found on your Google Classroom.
Assessment
for/of learning: Participation
in today’s activities.
Summarizer:
Mr.
PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of
tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information. Make sure to provide
as much detail as possible and provide a response for each numbered statement
below. You may want to copy the four statements below to your engineering
notebook for each daily entry.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry AND
Make
sure you have completed all class preparation as stated above in the section
labeled:
Guided
Practice Day 1:
Important
NOTE: In
preparation for this week’s lessons please bring in the following items or
similar items from home that you can share with your classmates during our class
activities:
CI -
Community, Global, and Ethical Impacts
7.1 -
Computing enhances communication, interaction, and cognition.
7.2 -
Computing enables innovation in nearly every field.
7.3 -
Computing has a global affect -- both beneficial and harmful -- on people and
society.
7.4 - Computing innovations influence and are influenced by the
economic, social, and cultural contexts in which they are designed and used.
The Computational Thinking Practices in which students should be engaged in this lesson are:
Activator: Open up your Engineering Journal and review what you entered last
class. Review the Standards, Objectives, above, for today’s lesson. Click on https://studio.code.org/
and log in. Locate the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Locate
the Unit 1: The Internet tile and click ‘View course’.
Direct
Instruction:
Computer
Science is Changing Everything - Video
CSP
Pre-Course Survey:
Take
the CSP Pre-Course survey – Code.org account
People seem to say that technology
is all around us, that it affects everything we do. Is that true? Technological innovation is
about recognizing a problem that needs to be solved, or recognizing something
needs improving and then building a tool to solve it.
As a class we’re going to see how
innovative we can be. We’re going to do something called “rapid
prototyping.”
“Prototype” is a fancy word that
means a preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It’s the
original drawing from which something real might be built or created.
Each
individual has at least one area of interest:
1.
Identify
some way that technology is used with, or affects that area of interest
2.
Make
a suggestion for either:
Guided Practice: (20 minutes)
Start
to sketch out that idea on a poster. Make a visual representation of your ideas.
Hint:
Very small ideas can have big consequences. People once thought it was
ridiculous that you would want to send a short text message to another person
over a phone.
Present
your Idea to the class
Do a “Gallery Walk” or a whip
around so that each student can see all of the other students’ work.
·
Each
student will explain to the class what their idea or what their innovation is.
Assessment
for/of learning: Participation
in today’s activities.
Summarizer:
Mr.
PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of
tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information. Make sure to provide
as much detail as possible and provide a response for each numbered statement
below. You may want to copy the four statements below to your engineering
notebook for each daily entry.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Review
all vocabulary introduced to date and make sure you understand each definition
in preparation for your weekly quiz.
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry AND
Important
NOTE: In
preparation for tomorrow’s lesson please bring in the following items or
similar items from home that you can share with your classmates during
tomorrow’s activity:
Thursday
Day C - 8-30-18 -
Lesson 2 – Sending Binary Messages
CL -
Collaboration
CT -
Computational Thinking
2.1 -
A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be used to represent
all digital data.2.1.1 - Describe the
variety of abstractions used to represent data. [P3]
2.1.2 -
Explain how binary sequences are used to represent digital data. [P5]
3.3 -
There are trade-offs when representing information as digital data.3.3.1 -
Analyze how data representation, storage, security, and transmission of data
involve computational manipulation of information. [P4]
Computer science is commonly thought
to be the study of computers themselves - the physical machines we have on our
desks and carry around in our pockets. Another way that computer scientists
think about would be to say that computer science is the study of
information and information processes.
Today
we’re going to think about what “information” and “information
processes” means. What is it that you think you might be studying?
Let’s
get started with a thinking prompt…
Prompt: What
is your personal definition of “information?” Take a minute to write it
down.
1. Discuss our definitions of ‘Information’
2. Form groups of 2. Today we’re going to work more with binary questions and messages.
A
binary question
is a question to which there are only two possible answers.
A binary message
is a message that can only have one of two possible values.
First you and your partner need to come up with a binary question. Prompt: Imagine that you and your friend have not been able to communicate for the entire summer, and you have a chance to ask her/him one binary question that he/she will answer. What binary question do you want to ask?
HINT: You might think about your
questions as if it is like a multiple choice test question, where for right now
you only have two possible answers.
3.
Review
the binary questions. Are they indeed binary questions?
4.
Now
that you’ve come up with a binary question, let’s talk about how you need to
answer it. Answering a binary question is easy when we speak to each other, but
it becomes more difficult when we are separated.
Today
we will focus on how a binary message can be sent over a distance.
You
will build the device that sends them.
Introduction
to Challenge: You
are going to build a device out of classroom supplies to send information to a
classmate on the other side of the room. There are some basic rules and
constraints:
You
should try to make it fail-proof. Consider obstacles that might be thrown in
your way. Would your device still work if:
Not all questions have only two
possible answers. Your new challenge is to invent a way to use your device to
send an answer to a question that has 4 possible answers! Think about
these things:
Demonstrate
how your device works
5.
Go
to Stage 2 of your code.org Unit 1 lesson 2. Click on steps 2 – 5 of this
stage, answer the questions and make sure to submit your responses.
Purpose
of today’s exercise:
The
purpose of the whole activity is to build toward an understanding that, from an
engineering perspective, the simplest way to physically send an infinite number
of messages over some distance is to make a binary message device, and to send unique
sequences of binary states. This is how the internet at physical level
actually works.
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information. Make sure to provide
as much detail as possible and provide a response for each numbered statement
below. You may want to copy the four statements below to your engineering
notebook for each daily entry.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry.
Review
all vocabulary introduced to date and make sure you understand each definition
in preparation for your weekly quiz.
Friday
Day D - 8-31-18 – Lesson 3: Sending Binary Messages with the Internet
Simulator
CL –
Collaboration
CT -
Computational Thinking
2.1 -
A variety of abstractions built upon binary sequences can be used to represent
all digital data.
2.3 -
Models and simulations use abstraction to generate new understanding and
knowledge.
3.1 -
People use computer programs to process information to gain insight and
knowledge.
3.3 -
There are trade-offs when representing information as digital data.
6.1 -
The Internet is a network of autonomous systems.
6.2 -
Characteristics of the Internet influence the systems built on it.
Direct
Instruction:
Yesterday you all made your own
binary message devices.
We
learned that we could compose any number of messages by sending a sequence of
states.
In
order to interpret the message we needed to know
What we were really doing was
beginning to develop a communication protocol
Today you’re going to develop a
protocol to solve a problem.
The
following demonstration can be done in two ways:
Instructions:
“Imagine
that you and your friend have made a binary signaling protocol using a
flashlight. The light on is state A, off is state B.”
Test
1
“Your
friend sends you this message. What is being signaled here? Write down what you
think the message is.”
Test
2
“Uh oh! Your friend realizes she
actually made a mistake encoding the message from before and decides to re-send
the message. Decode this new version of the message and write it down.”
Guided Practice:
Discussion
Lead a discussion that explores the
assumptions made when decoding these messages, and more importantly, explores
what information they would need in order to decode it.
Quick
Vocabulary
We need to get some terminology down
so that we can speak about our problems and solutions more efficiently.
·
Protocol -
For our purposes today a “protocol” is simply a set of rules about sending,
receiving and interpreting binary messages.
·
Bit We
will call each element of a binary message a bit. “Bit” is short for binary
digit. So for example if you have a binary message A B B A, we would say
that is a 4-bit message.
Today you and your partner will be
developing a protocol for exchanging 2-bit messages using an Internet
Simulator.
It
is likely that they will have uncovered most of the properties of the simulator,
but if they haven’t you can explain now.
Clarify
any misconceptions about the tool at this point and then move on with the
challenge.
The
challenge of today’s activity is to figure out a way to coordinate
actions with your partner to make this tool into a functioning two-way
bit-sending device.
Experiment:
Coordination and Single-Bit Protocols
Students
experiment with sending a single bit and develop protocols that allow them to
send more complex messages with more bits.
1)
Log
into code.org and view your class. Go to stage 3. You will need to work with a
partner
2)
Within
code.org studio click on the lesson file in stage 3, read the introduction, and
open, save, and follow the directions in the activity guide.
The activity guide should be filled out and attached to the assignment
found on your Google Classroom. Thanks
3)
Watch
the following video that will show you how to use the Internet Simulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6Fd5uwZno&feature=youtu.be
4)
It’s
recommended that partners who want to send data to each other sit close together
so they can talk, even though they need to be on different computers.
5)
Report
what you have discovered about the Internet Simulator and the protocol you
developed in order to meet the requirements of the Activity Guide.
The
2-bit Message Exchange Challenge!
Students will practice relaying a
2-bit sequence with their partners. The goal is to exchange 2-bit messages
(partner sends a 2-bit message, other partner sends a 2-bit message back) as
quickly and accurately as possible. In other words, students are trying to get
the fastest bit rate possible.
Rules
for the Challenge:
1)
Watch
the The
Internet: Wires, Cables & WiFi - Video
Discussion:
Relate
what’s shown in the video to what students had to do in the previous two
lessons:
If
students have not already done so, they should calculate the fastest bit rate
they were able to achieve. Lead a quick classroom discussion about the following
topics, using these prompts:
2)
Answer
the questions for Stage 3 of this unit of study in code.org
Assessment
for/of learning: Completion of today’s class assignment.
Summarizer: Mr. PC will review each day what each student accomplished and the focus of tomorrow.
Ticket
to Leave:
In
order to prepare you for your two AP CSP college-board performance tasks we need
to get use to reflecting on our daily work and experiences. This is a skill that
will prove to be useful when you go on to college, enter the workforce, and even
in every aspect of your everyday life. Every
day at the end of class you should save your work, open up your journal, put
down today’s date, and provide the following information. Make sure to provide
as much detail as possible and provide a response for each numbered statement
below. You may want to copy the four statements below to your engineering
notebook for each daily entry.
1. Provide at least on new thing that you learned today – Refer to today’s Objectives
2. What did you accomplish today?
3. Indicate any problems or obstacles you experienced
4. How did you solve the problems or obstacles that you experienced?
Feel
free to provide screen shots of your daily work in order to illustrate your
day’s activities. Windows provides a Snipping
Tool within its provided Accessories that may be used for this purpose.
Homework:
Ø
Complete
your ticket to leave journal entry. Complete answering the questions found in
code.org for Stage 3.
Ø
Make
sure to attach your Lesson 3 activity guide to the assignment found on your
Google classroom.
Ø
Review
all vocabulary introduced to date and make sure you understand each definition
in preparation for your weekly quiz.
Thanks for a great
week!
Mr. PC
Unit
1 Vocabulary