Schedule (Fall 2013)

The workshop will take place on November 15-16, 2013 in Northern Virginia at the NRC facilities (http://www.nvc.vt.edu/). The workshop is hosted and sponsored by the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and by Google's CS4HS program.

Click the session title to see a description of the session and links to resources for the session. Not all links are there yet, we will have them available by the time of the workshop.

Friday November 15^th, 2013
5:00 PM	Sign in, refreshments, introductions
5:30 PM	Welcome by Dr. Barbara Ryder Short video: Just announced on the SIGCSE listserv on Nov 15th. Code.org produced a video of the Head of Curriculum at the Los Angelos Unified School District (LAUSD) on the need for CS in K-12 schools. http://youtu.be/e0HOp17RMTo. Dinner
7:00 PM	Nifty Assignments by participants Stephen Edwards (VT) Slides used by Dr. Edwards Nifty Assignments site at Stanford (Nick Parlante). Three specific assignments that are good include the "Baby Names" assignment (which came from Nifty originally; we've used it in CS1 multiple times with objectdraw for output, and our student.jar has a nice data table abstraction that makes working with real-world data easy): Name Surfer: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2005/NameSurfer/ The game "Pig", which has been used in 2114 multiple times: Pig: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2010/neller-pig And this one (which inspired part of our "Battleship!" tournament last year, although we've never used it directly): Evil Hangman: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2011/schwarz-evil-hangman Finally, the 2013 entries include one media comp assignment from Guzdial himself: Collage: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2013/guzdial-collage Talk like a Pirate Minesweeper: assignment and code. Asteroids Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones (VT) Project 2 for MediaComp Fall 2011 Other links mentioned Pythonista: home and available at the iOS store. CS Unplugged  http://csunplugged.org Hopscotch available at the iOS store Daisy the dinosaur available at the iOS store Scratch website Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Computer Science Materials
8:30 PM	Breakup for the evening
Saturday November 16^th, 2013
8:30 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM	Computer Science at VT - Dr. Barbara Ryder
9:45 PM	Introduction to Python Leader: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones (VT) Intro Pythy home (@ cs.vt.edu) Slides Script, examples
10:30 AM	Break
10:45 AM	Examples from Media Computation This session will provide a very brief introduction to Media Computation (MC) and Python. The instructor will present several of the examples used in MC. The discussion will focus on the assignments given to the students and how they can engage them into computing. Slides Project 1 for MediaComp Fall 2011 Project 2 for MediaComp Fall 2011 Media Computation Teachers Website http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach MediaComputation JES project page http://code.google.com/p/mediacomp-jes/ Windows & Mac version 4.3 available from downloads page http://code.google.com/p/mediacomp-jes/downloads/list
11:30 AM	Python Tools Leader: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones (VT), Stephen Edwards Python home Pythy home (@ cs.vt.edu) Python Tutor Codingbat Python online book
Noon	Lunch - discussion
1:00 PM	Unit Testing in Java Leader: Stephen Edwards (VT) Slides Eclipse Workspace For info about the J1, J3, and J4 assignments, as well as downloadable versions of the "Calculator" example assignment, go to: http://wiki.web-cat.org/WCWiki/TryOutWebCat/UsageInstructions.
2:30 PM	Break
2:45 PM	Android programming with Sofia Leader: Stephen Edwards (VT) Slides Eclipse Workspace (same as the one linked from the JUnit section above)
3:30 PM	Evaluation of workshop, plans for future workshops
4:00 AM	Breakup for the day

Schedule (Fall 2013)

Stephen Edwards (VT)

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones (VT)

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