CS Fundamentals Unplugged Lessons. Each of these activities can either be used alone or with other computer science lessons on related concepts. 2019-20 CS Fundamentals Curriculum 2019 Course A-F Curriculum Book Course A-F Supply List Course Amazon Lists Resources for older versions of CS Fundamentals 2018 Course A-F Curriculum Book.
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CS 106A: Programming Methodology. In section this week, we built a server program that helps a client to schedule a flight itinerary.
The second part of the section handout involves writing a ConsoleProgram that can act as a client to this server. In the real world, many clients aren't ConsoleProgams but rather websites. To give you an example of how a server that you might write might work with a website, we've made a small sample webpage that works by making requests to your FlightPlannerServer program: If you're interested in trying this out for yourself, download the eclipse project here , and open webpage/index.html in your browser. The page will have instructions as to how to set up your server! If you have any questions about how this webpage works or if something doesn't appear to be working, shoot Brahm an email at brahm@stanford.edu .
Three Brain Teasers to Spur Logical Thinking and Collaboration. There are lots of ways to stretch student thinking and get them talking to each other about ideas.
One fun way is through riddles that require inductive reasoning, critical thinking and hopefully some good collaboration around student ideas. The three brain teasers below created by TED-Ed have fun visuals and include an explanation at the end. All the videos also include lesson plan ideas to deepen the conversation and start discussion. In this first video about prisoners’ hats the problem set-up ends at 1:35, so stop the video there if you want kids to work on the problem before learning how to solve it.
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