So why do we need CS Principles

I have been asked a lot this past year about why CS Principles is being developed. Even though computer science is all about change, and the changes in...

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Vocabulary Internet Safety

After watching the video on some of the vocabulary words, please continue working on your Internet Safety project. One caution I would highlight - we...

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What Holds Girls Back from Computer Science an update

A few weeks back I blogged about an infograpfic that was making the rounds.I am so happy to say that the infographic has been updated:Better, no?I...

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Writing in the Computer Science Classroom

So, you think you are not an English teacher? Guess again.Disneys Paperman This is a good article about the new Disney short film Paperman....

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Formatting Activity 4

Today we are going to learn how to set tabs in Word.  After explaining the process for setting tabs you will be working on the formatting activity,...

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Apple dominate market Samsung is on two

According the latest study IDC , Apple returned at  share 68% of global market of tablette in the second quarter of 2012 .Samsung is the second ,exceeding...

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Crossword Puzzle Learn apostrophe hyphen and quotation marks

Today you will be receiving a crossword puzzle that will be due this Friday.  This crossword puzzle contains vocab words from vocab lists 1 through...

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Inserting Clipart into Microsoft Word

Today we are going to learn how to insert Clipart into Word. These are images that come with Word, or you can also find them online. We are going to use...

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Celebrate the International Day of teh Girl with

Some Great Computer Science ResourcesI just stumbled across the Tech Girls Website, and as they point out Oct 11 is the International Day of the girl.They...

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Vocab Quiz 10 the last one! Pizza menu design work

Today is the last of the vocab quizzes!  As usual you will be given time at the beginning of class to study - do not go to Classmarker until I tell...

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Logic Groups

This year in the Intro to Programming class we are trying logic groups. This past summer Robert Luciano presented this at the UVA Tapestry workshop....

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Google Science Fair Winners

Google just awarded their Science Fair 2012 awards. The grand prize winner was Brittany Wenger from Florida. She won $50,000 scholarship, an internship...

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HTML ISP and IP addresses

We are going to discuss the difference between ISP and IP addresses first, then we will look at what HTML is. After covering those vocab words you will...

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Google Chrome 21

Google launched final version with the number 21 of Chrome browser . Among improvements most important include support for “Retina Display”, a white bubble...

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Pizza Menu

You will be given all day today and tomorrow to submit the Pizza Menu assignment - it will be due Friday at the end of the hour.  Here are a couple...

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ITBS Week

Because of ITBS testing, I will only be seeing  a few classes in the lab this week. If you are in the following classes, LUCKY YOU! Mr. PrattMs....

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How does Computer Science fit with No Screens Week

You know how we all have that one Facebook friend, the one that is all granolier than thou about everything? I recently got into one of those discussions...

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No peeking

This video was recommended for explaining public-key encryption. It uses ttheidea of mixing paint colors to explain how public key cryptology.It is part...

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Video FA6 symbols in Word

Here is todays video on Cache memory:After watching the video we will discuss how you can insert symbols into a Word document.  Then you will be...

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Top 10 Computer Science Tweets for APCS Principles

APCS Principles has a lot of great places to include articles and news about computer science for student readings. Here is a summary of some of the more...

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Eighth Week

3rd-5th -Its time to assess our keyboarding skills! After completing a lesson on Type2Learn, we will be visiting sense-lang.org to see how many words...

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Finish FA2 Learn 8 1 9 4 and 0

REMINDER - VOCAB DEFINITIONS DUE TONIGHT FOR WEEK4!!!Today we are going to finish FA2.  When you are done you should have 2 pages that are printed...

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Learn Z and colon left shift R4 vocab definitions due tonight!

If you have not completed FA1 and emailed it to me then you need to get that done ASAP at the beginning of class.  If you have already completed...

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Why not to print more money by Government

SCENARIO 1:Many of them asking why not print more money to solve debt problem?SOLUTION:Consider we have debt around 100 cr. to china,america,etc.,Now...

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Top 20 Ways to Learn Computer Science Online

Ive been trying to keep up with all of the new ways to learn to code online - the first list is here. The new APCS Principles course has a lot of elements...

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Mapping the Internet

Whenever we start a new topic I love having an activity to set the tone. I came across the Mapping the Internet a few weeks back.The projects...

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I Have a Dream bookstore edition

It is sad that in the local book store with the best selection of these:There is not a single computer science book in these:My goal? To have enough local...

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Speed test practice

We are going to spend some time today reviewing the keys we have learned so far.  After reviewing we will go to the Free Typing Games website to...

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Data Unit Day Four

(This is a day by day of the Data: Lets do the Numbers Unit in CS Principles. The overview is here.)We only had half a class today. As...

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Data Unit Lets do the Numbers

Today we started the unit on data in the CS PrinciplesSketch for Day 1 - (I am a visual planner)This is probably the trickiest of all of the CS Principles...

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Type2Learn Program

Our Type2Learn program is really helping to improve our keyboarding skills! We saw gains of 6-8 wpm on our typing tes...

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Internet Safety

Please continue to work on your Internet Safety project with your partner if you have not yet completed your 4 topics.  There have been several people...

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Journaling in the Computer Science Classroom

One of the biggest changes for the new APCS Principles course is the use of Performance Tasks (PT) as a part of the official CollegeBoard assessment....

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