Resource: High school students build robotic wheelchair for child. Use in the curriculum Hold a discussion about using technology to help others in need. Discussion prompts: The team who built this robotic wheelchair for this child first learned a lot Read more…
Computer Science is not just about programming. There are many other facets of the discipline that do not get enough attention from students and educators. The processing and portrayal of information is a key component of computer science, but Read more…
Just a friendly reminder that the Swift Playgrounds “Day of Action” will be happening today, April 1, 2018 from 2PM to 5PM GMT. Byte is quite the character but he, along with the other Character instances, are coming under increased scrutiny Read more…
We are very excited to announce that we have completed our video resources for the Learn to Code series of activities for the Swift Playgrounds Computer Science curriculum from Apple. Link: Swift Playgrounds Videos The videos linked here are an excellent Read more…
Swift Playgrounds for iPad and the Learn to Code curriculum are fantastic at introducing students to almost all of the major components of computer science: abstraction, composition, procedural thinking and computational thinking. There is one aspect of computer science that Read more…
In Computer Science class this week, we showed in class the video footage of the latest SpaceX Heavy rocket launch from Florida and had a class discussion on the role of technology in human space exploration. (Link: Video of the Read more…
Much of computer science is learned by students outside the classroom. Therefore, as computer science educators, it is perhaps at least as important for us to inspire, as it is to teach. We are compiling a list of classroom resources Read more…
Our students had a particularly challenging homework assignment this week: Corners of the World in the Learn to Code 2 Collection. We all succeeded in getting Byte to complete the activity, but the code was not the most elegant in Read more…
The representation of custom types in Swift Playgrounds In Swift (and in most other programming languages), programmers can create their own custom types. When you create a struct or a class you are creating your own custom type. Many useful types Read more…
Learning objectives: Working with Strings – concatenation Working with 1-D arrays – accessing elements, count Multidimensional arrays – 2D- and 3D-arrays, accessing elements, count Traversing arrays – for-loops and nested-loops Ragged- or jagged-arrays; definition, applications and using loops to traverse Read more…