Hello Scorpions!

As you may know, our school year is quickly coming to an end. A little bit different that before, but still our last week of classes. I want to thank you for being part of my class this year! We had a great time together and we certainly have learned a lot. I will miss you, take care, and try your best always!

I want to congratulate the following students for their excellent coding skills and resilience throughout this last unit: Anthony E., Bruce V., Christopher C., Diego A., Meylin S., Miranda R., Imanol A., Ricardo G., Daniela V., Derek A., Michelle L., Carolina G., Lizeth O. and Tlacxy E. Congratulations for being such outstanding students, you make me PROUD!

This week, you will have to finish Lesson 5 (all steps). In addition, please try to finish the unit by completing the last lesson. It is just one step! Keep Coding Scorpions!

PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS COMPLETING ANY OF THE LESSON STEPS. MY OFFICE HOURS ARE FROM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MONDAY-FRIDAY) TRY TO ASK FOR HELP BEFORE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THANK YOU!

Unit: Self-Paced Introduction to Turtle Programming in App Lab

This unit introduces the foundational concepts of computer programming, which unlocks the ability to make rich, interactive apps. This course uses JavaScript as the programming language and App Lab as the programming environment to build apps. At the end of this unit, you will be challenged to create a digital scene (background) for an App.

IMPORTANT: This week, you need to complete lesson 5 by finishing steps 6-13.

On Lesson 5 Part II, you will be presented with blocks which enable to choose a random number within a range. These blocks enable you to create more complex backgrounds for digital scenes by randomly placing simple objects in the background of your scene. You will use these tools to enhance the Under the Sea exemplar digital scene.

Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers Part II

 Objective: At the end of the lesson, I will be able to use loops in a program to simplify the expression of repeated tasks in coding.

Success Criteria:

• Complete Steps 6-13 on code.org from Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers

Activity/Instructions:

1. Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7Q33ysCwI   (Coding is Not Difficult - Bill Gates)
2. Log in into code.org and choose Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers
3. Work on step 6-12 (Using Loops to Add Detail to Your Drawing)
4. Practice the use of loops on step 13 (Under the Sea Project)
5. If you have time, try to finish the unit by Making your own Digital Scene on Lesson 6. It only has one step. Try to Design your own scene! Come up with something you want to create and try to draw it! Come on Scorpions, you can do it :)

 Vocab

For Loop - Loops that have a predetermined beginning, end, and increment (step interval).

Loop - The action of doing something over and over again.

 

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards:

AP - Algorithms & Programming

3A-AP-15 - Justify the selection of specific control structures when tradeoffs involve implementation, readability, and program performance and explain the benefits and drawbacks of choices made.

For students with smartphones only, you can continue to learn coding by using this code.org recommended app:

Grasshopper App: https://grasshopper.app/  (try to learn one or two concepts per week)

 

For students in the “Girls who Code” Club, here are some activities you can do at home:

Website Link: https://girlswhocode.com/code-at-home/

Girls Who Code will release weekly Computer Science educational activities on this website to keep up your learning at home. Keep coding girls!

Note: Any questions you may have, please send me an email by clicking on my name under Instructor which is on the right side of this web page. I'll be replying to your emails twice a day (morning/afternoon). Thank you. Take care and Be safe Scorpions!

 Instructions to log in into code.org:

Please log in into your code.org account. In the event you don’t remember your 2 secret words, please send me an email using google classroom (mail.gesd32.net). The username and password are the same you use to log in into the computers at school.

Here are the codes you’ll need to log in into Code.org:

1^st Period:  NXZCLQ

2^nd Period:  SCXXQH

4^th Period:  NVNNPS

6^th Period:  JNKHRT

7^th Period:  SHFMZT

8^th Period:  VWPMHS

 

Hello Scorpions!

I want to thank all of you for turning in your work and doing the past lesson in code.org. I also want to encourage you to continue to do your best. Keep Coding Scorpions!

If you were not able to finish some steps of lesson four don’t worry, I uploaded the files with the right code for each step. They are at the bottom of this page. Please use them to complete lesson four.

PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO EMAIL ME (csanchez@gesd32.org) IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS COMPLETING ANY OF THE LESSON STEPS. MY OFFICE HOURS ARE FROM 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MONDAY-FRIDAY) TRY TO ASK FOR HELP BEFORE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THANK YOU!

Unit: Self-Paced Introduction to Turtle Programming in App Lab

This unit introduces the foundational concepts of computer programming, which unlocks the ability to make rich, interactive apps. This course uses JavaScript as the programming language and App Lab as the programming environment to build apps. At the end of this unit, you will be challenged to create a digital scene (background) for an App.

IMPORTANT: I opted to divide lesson 5 in two parts due to the high number of steps. I wanted you to have enough time to finish it. This week you will finish Lesson 5, Steps 1-5 only.

On Lesson 5 Part I, you will learn to use random values and looping to create different drawings and quickly duplicate objects you wish to appear in your digital scenes (background) many times. You will be presented with a version of the “for loop” which only enables to change the number of times the loop runs. This block is essentially a "repeat" block and will be presented that way. 

Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers Part I

Objective: At the end of the lesson, I will be able to use loops in a program to simplify the expression of repeated tasks in coding.

Success Criteria:

• Complete Steps 1-5 on code.org from Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers

Activity/Instructions:

1. Watch video https://www.youtube.com/wath?v=mgooqyWMTxk (Hour of Code - Mark Zuckerburg teaches Repeat Loops)
2. Log in into code.org and choose Lesson 5: Looping and Random Numbers
3. Watch video on Step 1 (Using loops)
4. Work on steps 2-5 (Introduction to loops) 

Vocab

For Loop - Loops that have a predetermined beginning, end, and increment (step interval).

Loop - The action of doing something over and over again.

 

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards:

AP - Algorithms & Programming

3A-AP-15 - Justify the selection of specific control structures when tradeoffs involve implementation, readability, and program performance and explain the benefits and drawbacks of choices made.

For students with smartphones only, you can continue to learn coding by using this code.org recommended app:

Grasshopper App: https://grasshopper.app/  (try to learn one or two concepts per week)

 

For students in the “Girls who Code” Club, here are some activities you can do at home:

Website Link: https://girlswhocode.com/code-at-home/

Girls Who Code will release weekly Computer Science educational activities on this website to keep up your learning at home. Keep coding girls!

Note: Any questions you may have, please send me an email by clicking on my name under Instructor which is on the right side of this web page. I'll be replying to your emails twice a day (morning/afternoon). Thank you. Take care and Be safe Scorpions!

 

Instructions to log in into code.org:

Please log in into your code.org account. In the event you don’t remember your 2 secret words, please send me an email using google classroom (mail.gesd32.net). The username and password are the same you use to log in into the computers at school.

Here are the codes you’ll need to log in into Code.org:

1^st Period:  NXZCLQ

2^nd Period:  SCXXQH

4^th Period:  NVNNPS

6^th Period:  JNKHRT

7^th Period:  SHFMZT

8^th Period:  VWPMHS