6th Grade Course Overview:

  • Build a website using free web-hosting software to house all of your class projects
  • Research key figures in the history of computers
  • make animated google slides presentation and post it to your website
  • History & development of computers & key innovations but focused on the wwii era (1939 - 1945)
  • How computers work - Binary Code, Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates, Building Circuits
  • writing simple computer Programs (scratch)
  • Build a basic video game and post it to your website

7/8th Grade Course Overview:

  • Build a new website to house all of your class projects
  • Expanded history of computers from 1822-present but focused on the pc revolution (1975)
  • Overview of information theory; searching & sorting algorithms; compiling / decompiling code
  • building half adder, full adder, and 8-bit adder / subtractor
  • The basics of the Python coding language (tynker curriculum)
  • Writing simple math & game programs in Python (trinket platform)
  • writing simple, graphics-based (GUI) programs in python (trinket, codeskulptor, PyGames, pixelpad)*​
            *if time allows

NarWhalffles

A father & son project. Use < ^ > keys to swim. Collect waffles. Avoid jellies. Invincible stars. Life raft for 1 up. 
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Dino-Jump

SORT OF LIKE YOU'RE OFFLINE ON GOOGLE CHROME, BUT BETTER.
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