Task: How can you drop an egg from a height of 3 meters without breaking it?

Steps taken in solving the problem

Information gathering

What are the constraints?

The ground must be hard, no adding of sand

No use of Drones

No use of Parachutes.

Definition of problem : Drop an uncooked egg from 3m high onto hard ground without breaking it.

Brainstorming

The process of generating ideas to solve the problem

Identification of resources

Determine what is needed for EACH solution. e.g rubber bands, string , balloons etc.

Evaluation of pros and cons of multiple solutions

Compare each solution across similar criteria:

e.g. availability of resources, cost, how well each solution is expected to solve the problem, the complexity of the solution.

Determining most feasible solution.

After we have thoroughly evaluated the solutions, we choose one of them and implement it.

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Definition: Finding and removing errors in your program is called debugging. 

While developing the solution to a program , it’s always a good practice to test your program by running it to ensure that the code runs as you intended. If it does not, you try to determine what caused the error and modify your code so that it’s fixed.

In class Demonstration

In the example below, we consider the task to be solved as part of a bigger program, however now, you would be working on the sprite movement:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/518447917/

(Credit: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/rickettr , https://scratch.mit.edu/users/CyberParra )

Teacher discusses and demonstrates how  the program can be fixed.

Discussion

Even if you are confident that you have completed your program, you should test it to see that it works correctly , before releasing your programming project for use by it’s intended audience.

 

In class exercise and homework

Open the following scratch studio and try debugging the projects listed after the studio:

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/219583/

(Credit: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/219583/curators/ , https://scratch.mit.edu/users/rickettr)

List of Projects to debug:

Contingency Class

See the pdf for notes that were given when the internet was not available for class:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/103wrSFX2SRvkDy3yvOrszRh2xONpR0l5?usp=sharing

“HOMEWORK – Perform the in class exercise and homework found on the post from our google classroom”

Debugging in Context – Finding the average of an unknown amount of numbers

See video Below:

UPDATES

2022 April 22nd – Added contingency class

2023 January 11th – Added Debugging in Context – Finding the average of an unknown amount of numbers video only.

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—–Start: Our Syllabus Objective/Content: ——–OBJECTIVE
Internet-based tools for collaboration
CONTENT
Adding/Editing content; Site for shared working;
Google drive as a collaborative forum.

—–End: Our Syllabus Objective/Content: ——–

INSTRUCTION
1. Required: Review the content on collaboration here (Estimated Time 10 mins):https://islandclass.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/wikis-for-online-collabaration/

2. View the videos found via this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LV1xR5lOo&list=PLU8ezI8GYqs5DMmx_GKEkugMqXdSocbFZ&index=1.

3. Practical: Write your Name and any message  on the google doc here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JO-KBeewj-d_390Mq9XeqWHvByFyZvdHkZ3RLKfMKnA/edit?usp=sharing
(The document is named, “Collaborating with each other”)

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Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. A blog can be private or public.[1]

Most people can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts. A blog containing video material is called a video blog or video log, usually shortened to vlog.

When a person writes on a blog, what they write is in the form of a post, which is a single piece of writing on the blog. Posts often include links to other websites.

Blogs can have one or more writers. If they have more than one writer, they are often called community blogs, team blogs, or group blogs.[2]

Ways to Use a blog[3]

Teachers can use blogs to :

• publish assignments,
• resources and notes,
• keep students informed on class events, due dates, and content being covered.
•  improve students writing skills.

Students can use blogs to

• publish their writing and educate others on a particular topic.
• To keep track of extra-curricular groups and clubs e.g chess club

Updates:

2023-Jan-8 : changed “keep students on…” to “keep students informed on…”

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[1] VK

[2] https://kids.kiddle.co/Blog

[3] https://elearningindustry.com/how-to-use-blogs-in-the-classroom

SMS

• SMS  = Short Message Service
• Is available for all phones on a cellular network
• Can be used at any time on the cellular network
  • Fees are usually encompassed in the user’s mobile plan

Main Advantages

• SMS is only dependent on the mobile network connection, and essentially can reliably work at any time (it does not rely on internet connectivity)

Main Disadvantages

• Can only send text

IM

• IM=Instant Messaging
• Is available only where…..
  • The user installs the service
  • some phone manufacturers have  a service pre installed
  • Provided by 3rd party apps or Companies
    • Iphone’s Imessages
    • Whatsapp
    • Telegram
    • Facebook Messenger

Main advantages

• Can be used to send a variety of data formats in addition to text
  • Files
  • Images
  • Documents
• Easily supports Mobile to pc messaging
  
  

Main Disadvantages

• Messages are not always guaranteed to be instant due to   breaks in internet connectivity, which is common for internet provided by dataplans
• All IM services require  an internet connection and/or a dataplan to be used.
  
  

1. SMS
   1. Main Advantages
   2. Main Disadvantages
2. IM
   1. Main advantages
   2. Main Disadvantages

Updates to this post

2024/1/7 –

Changed image access from link only to an inline image displayed at the top of the post.

Added a TOC

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The files used in the tutorial can be found here:

(Tutorial – Absolute addressing and Charts Demo)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NEEvUZgdf2ZUwXuuytebY7uWatPzq8ZR?usp=sharing

Instructions

Download the files above. Follow along with the video using the file named “Tutorial – Absolute addressing and Charts Demo-Start.xlsx”

Video

https://youtu.be/PcbyciLuDmw

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See the video that demonstrates the content:

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You can download the files for the tutorial here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QXQJ6SJXMLob3ltPQnWxyDDbKd4LU5IE?usp=sharing

Instructions

Download the File “Mock Assignment tutorial 03.1 Start” from the link above, and use it to follow along with the video below.

Video

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