Welcome

  • Welcome to the Computer Club
  • My name is Mr. Abrams
  • What should we do?

Computers are the Best Tool

We are tool makers.

Computers are our best tool.

Why do think this is true?

Computers are Easy

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Computers are Complex

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You’ll Program Computers

  • Business person to analyze market trends
  • Engineer to build new things
  • Scientist to analyze data
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Programming is Good

  • Learn more about this tool
  • Learn to think logically
  • Learn to solve big problems
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How Should we Learn?

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  • Fall Quarter
  • Winter Quarter
  • Spring Quarter

We will Make a Blog

What is a blog?

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What is a Blog?

Easy way to publish essays, reports, news and journal entries on the Internet.

Why is a Blog good?

Two Green Leaves

Two boys wanted to talk about Climate Change…

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http://twogreenleaves.org

Blog Examples

What if I don’t like blogs?

  • Make Interactive Fiction
  • Make Games with Scratch

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Class Structure

  • Learn at your Pace:
    • As fast or slow as you want
    • Have fun with this at home
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Advice

  • Take advantage of this opportunity
    • Don’t play games (do that at home)
    • Don’t do too much artwork
    • Ask me questions, I’m here for you
  • Don’t be disruptive
  • Use headphones
  • Enjoy yourself

Terminology

Web is built on words:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Blog

HTML

  • Hypertext Markup Language
  • Page Structure … like a Skeleton

CSS

  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Makes a web page pretty
  • … like skin, hair or feathers

JavaScript

  • Programming language
  • Makes a web page do stuff
  • Graphic animations

Blog

  • Originally called a web log
  • Easy to make lots of web pages
  • Need to know HTML, CSS and even JavaScript

How to Learn?

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https://www.codecademy.com/

Take HTML + CSS course first.

Created: 2023-01-11 Wed 21:34

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