Author: Cindy Zhang
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Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation
Login to your account on Khan Academy and start the Computer Programming course: Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation. Learn how to use the JavaScript language and the ProcessingJS library to create fun drawings and animations.
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Hour of Code: Drawing with code
Follow this tutorial on Khan Academy and then finish your first hour of code. Here’s a quick run-down of how you can learn coding in this lesson: Learn new concepts using a talk-through, which is like a video but more interactive. Do step-by-step challenges to practice newly learned concepts. Finally, work on a project where you…
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Take a Beaver Computing Challenge
Take the 45-minute test to check your computing abilities before you start coding in the next lesson. The Beaver Computing Challenge(BCC) introduces computer science to students. It is designed to get students with little or no previous experience excited about computing. The BCC is a problem solving contest with a focus on computational and logical…
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Computer 101: How Computers Work?
Watch this video from Khan Academy and then answer the following questions. What Makes a Computer, a Computer? Write out 4 funtions Similar A Human Brain How do computers store or represent information using electricity? Binary How do computers process the information? What’s CPU? What’s hardware? What’s software?