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Robotc: Thinking About Programming: Programmer & Machine [Pdf]
In this lesson, students learn about the roles of the programmer and the robot, and how the two need to work together in order to accomplish their goal. Students also understand logic behind the robot's actions, and break a big plan down...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is a Computer Program?
Through four lesson and four activities, students are introduced to the logic behind programming using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compound Booleans With Logical Operators
Learn about computer programming using compound booleans with logical operators.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Program Analysis Using App Inventor
In computer science, program analysis is used to determine the behavior of computer programs. Flow charts are an important tool for understanding how programs work by tracing control flow. Control flow is a graphical representation of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compound Booleans With Logical Operators
Practice using compound boolean expressions with AND/OR/NOT for programs in the AP CSP pseudocode, in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Teaching Guide: Intro to Js Logic and if Statements
A teaching guide for the Intro to JS lesson on Logic and if statements.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Maze Challenge
As the first engineering design challenge of the unit, students are introduced to the logic for solving a maze. student groups apply that logic to program LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to navigate through a maze, first with no sensors, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Line Follower Challenge
Student groups are challenged to program robots with light sensors to follow a black line. Learning both the logic and skills behind programming robots for this challenge helps students improve their understanding of how robots work, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conditionals With If, Else, and Booleans
A tutorial explainning the use of if, else, and Boolean logic in computer programming.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Nested Conditionals
Learn how nested conditionals work in computer programming.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: That's Hot! Robot Brain Programming
With the challenge to program computers to mimic the human reaction after touching a hot object, students program LEGO robots to "react" and move back quickly once their touch sensors bump into something. By relating human senses to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Review: Logic and if Statements
A review of logic and "if" statements, if/else statements, and conditional expressions
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compound Booleans With Logical Operators
Learn how to make shorter and more expressive code by combining simple Boolean expressions using logical operators (and, or, not) to create compound Boolean expressions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robot Design Challenges
Through the two lessons and five activities in this unit, students' knowledge of sensors and motors is integrated with programming logic as they perform complex tasks using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and software.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Music by Touch
Through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, students learn programming skills and logic design as they program robot computers to play sounds and rotate a wheel when a touch sensor is pressed, and then...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Using Waits, Loops and Switches
Students incorporate their knowledge of wait blocks, loops, and switches into their programming of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to perform different tasks depending on input from a sound sensor and two touch sensors. This activity...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Python Script Analysis
Working in small groups, students complete and run functioning Python codes.This requires students to understand the logic employed, and then they must make modifications to the code in order to find the slopes of tangents to a variety...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Circumscribing a Circle About a Triangle
Here is a project that combines Computer Science and Mathematics. Prove a method for circumscribing a circle about a triangle (as shown). You'll also learn how to create an interactive diagram to illustrate your proof, using an applet...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Inscribing a Circle in a Triangle Using the Geometry Applet
Here is a project that combines Computer Science and Mathematics. Prove a method for inscribing a circle within a triangle (as shown). You'll also learn how to create an interactive diagram to illustrate your proof, using an applet that...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Conditionals With If, Else, and Booleans
Learn how omcputer programs also make decisions, using Boolean expressions (true/false) inside conditionals (if/else).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Random Numbers
See how we can generate random values in our computer programs, and use those to make decisions and simulate natural processes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
This site contains a variety of resources, information about, and research concerning artificial intelligence.
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Motif Plays Backgammon: A Game of Strategy
A very challenging game of strategy and skill from Backgammon Galore. The student plays backgammon against a computer program. Included is a page on instructions so the student can learn the game.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Flow Charting App Inventor Tutorials
Students design and create flow charts for the MIT App Inventor tutorials in this computer science activity about program analysis. In program analysis, which is based on determining the behavior of computer programs, flow charts are an...