August+Class+Workspace

**August 6, 2012**
By the time you've reached here, you have: 1. Logged onto the new Logos computers (with Edubuntu!) 2. Opened Google Chrome. 3. Navigated to this page.

You may want to now: 1. Bookmark this page (your bookmarks will follow you if you are logged in!)

Then you need to: 1. Sign up for a wikispaces account (if you had one last year, you may use it, or you may sign up for a personal account). 2. Request to join this wiki. 3. Read the Course Outline and Student Account Guidelines. 4. Ask Miss Hines for your @students.logoscambodia.org password and information. (Note, everyone has to do this!) 5. Done? You may explore the new operating system, Edubuntu.

After this, we will (time permitting): 1. Discuss the question What is Design? 2. Look at the Design Cycle overall 3. Have a design challenge (paper tower competition).

August 8, 2012
Today we will: 1. Find designed features of a common everyday object. 2. Discuss Problems and how to move to the Planning phase. 3. Practice Brainstorming.

If we have time, we will watch a movie about a design firm called IDEO.

August 10, 2012
Today we will: 1. We will finish the movie about IDEO. 2. We will move on to talk about Project Management Techniques and work through the questions in the shared Google Doc. 3. We will also talk about moving from Planning to Product Creation to Testing and Refinement. If we finish all of this, Miss Hines will introduce the project!

August 14, 2012
Today we will: 1. Work on the project for this unit. Miss Hines has construction materials for you to use for your prototype, or you may use your own. Due date? Let's see where we are at the end.

August 16, 2012
Today we will: 1. Work on the project for this unit. Miss Hines has construction materials for you to use. Be sure to check over the requirements for the project!

=August 20, 2012= Today we will: 1. Work on the project for this unit. Miss Hines has construction materials for you to use. Be sure to check over the requirements for the project! Due date: August 24 - we will not have any more time to work in class though...

=August 22, 2012= Today we will: 1. Start our Programming Unit by playing games! If you've never tried it, play LightBot: media type="file" key="light-bot-2205.swf" width="833" height="308" When you play, avoid looking at the Walkthroughs - try and do this on your own. Already beat LightBot? Try LightBot 2. Again - don't look at the Walkthroughs - do it on your own with your own brain! @http://hoodamath.com/games/lightbot2.php

2. Eventually, we will move to Tutorial 1.

August 24, 2012
Today we will: 1. Have show-and-tell with our prototypes (and hand them in!) 2. Work on Getting Started with Processing. When you get to Assignment 1, you may work on it. Su In (and Tom): You need to read the Comments Tutorial to ensure that you understand what level of comments I am looking for. Then you may continue to work on Assignment 1 with bonuses. When you're finished, I'll give you something else do to.

=August 28, 2012= Today we will: 1. Continue working on introducing Processing. Today, we'll learn about commenting so you can actually finish your first assignment. We'll also look at Processing.org, so that you can look up new commands on your own, and see tutorials. 2. If you finish Assignment 1 with Bonuses, we'll move on to something else!

August 30, 2012
Today we will: 1. Learn the first two Linux (Unix) Commands of the Day: ls and man 2. Learn about data types and variables, and printing out to the console. We will also learn about how to make things happen when we move the mouse and basic (basic!) animation. (Need a challenge? Start with the Loops Review. Then, you can try and tackle Arrays! 3. If we have time, we will learn about random numbers. 4. We will have a few minutes to work on Assignment 1, which is due on September 5 at the beginning of class.