Links

3D Modeling and Animation

• Document: Presentation, Plane Project Handout, Navigation help

• Videos: Tutorials, Plane Project Tutorial

• Websites: Clara.io

3D Printing

• Document: Presentation, Printing Handout

• Videos: Robohand, 3D Metal Printing, Printing a car, Shapeways

• Websites: Thingiverse, Tinkercad, BlocksCAD, 3D Printed Sound

• Materials: Access to 3D printer(s)

Artistic Math

• Document: Presentation, Handout: Helpful equations, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Websites: Activity - Pattern, Python Turtle, Cardioid, Make Art

Beauty of Fractals

• Document: Presentation

• Websites: Turtle Graphics, Koch Snowflake, Koch Snowflake Solution, Menger Sponge (BlocksCAD), Menger Sponge Handout, Scratch Fractal Examples (not used in class)

• Videos: What is a Fractal? (full video), The Freaky World of Fractals

Biometrics with the MicroBit

• Documents: Presentation, Handout

• Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding

Materials: MicroBit, MicroBit breadboard

Build your own Voice App

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: VoiceFlow, Quotes Generator Demo, Quotes, Jokes

Cartoons from Scratch

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Scratch

• Examples: Dancing Dino, Galloping Unicorn, Advanced Unicorn

Computer Simulations for Science

• Documents: Presentation, Walk & Turn Handout, Epidemic Handout

• Websites: StarLogo Nova, Epidemic projects, Class links

Code some Chords

• Documents: Presentation, Helpful Commands Handout, EarSketch Documentation

• Videos: What is EarSketch?

• Websites: EarSketch

Computer Art

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Make Turtle Art, Inspiration: Math Art Demos, Fractal Demos, More Functions, Photo Filter Demos: Demo 1, Demo 2

• AI inspired Demos: Magic Sketchpad, Style Transfer, GAN Image Generation, Art Breeder, Google Art & Culture

Crowd Sourcing

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Penguin Watch, GlobalXplorer, Whales as Individuals, Zooniverse

• Other: SETI@Home, FoldIt

Custom Maps

• Documents: Presentation, Presentation (old)

• Websites: ArcGIS Mapping Online, Story Maps, Geocoder, Data.gov

• Data: COVID-19 Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE , Middle School Enrollment Data, Bird Tracking Data

Cyber Security Basics

• Documents: Presentation

• Videos: Asking people for their passwords

• Websites: Cyber Threat Map 1, Cyber Threat Map 2, Test your password, Steganography

• Challenges: Nova Cyber Lab, Desert Oasis, Cipher Crack the Code, Be Internet Awesome

Dancing with AI

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Poseblocks, Dancing with AI, Teachable Machine

Data Mining QuickDraw Doodles

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Play QuickDraw, Drawing Completion Tool, Doodles by Country, How do people draw circles

• Other Links: QuickDraw API, QuickDraw Data Set, How do you draw a circle?, Notebook with all completed examples

Encryption

• Documents: Presentation, Worksheets

• Websites: Online Cipher Wheel, Caesar cipher tool, Desert Oasis, Agnes Driscoll, Crypto Club

• Video: Bletchley Park, Encryption (complete video)

Exercise with the MicroBit

• Documents: Presentation, Handout

• Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding, MicroBit Web Monitor

• More websites: Emoji codes, color picker, HTML and CSS information

• Materials: MicroBit

Finding Data Fast with Databases

• Documents: Presentation, Account Setup Instructions

• Websites: MongoDB

Forking, Cloning & Creating a Website with Git/GitHub

• Documents: Presentation, GitHub Cheat Sheet

• Websites: GitHub, Git, ORCSGirls Project Repository, Octocat Generator, GitHub Quick Start

Fun with Algorithms

• Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Notebooks: Lists, Bubble Sort, Solution Bubble Sort, ChiliGame

• Video: BBC The Secret Rules of Modern Living Algorithms (complete video)

Fun with the MicroBit

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding, Microbit Project Ideas

• Materials: MicroBit, MicroBit Inventor Kit

Game Physics

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: CoSpaces

Infographics

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Piktochart, Reliable data sources

Internet of Things

• Documents: Presentation, Firmware Handout

• Videos: What is the Internet of Things

• Websites: Particle Photon Examples, Particle Coding Environment (account needed), Web Page Generator

• Materials: Particle Photon (alternate source)

Introduction VR

• Documents: Presentation, Cardboard Handout, VR Scripting Handout, CoSpaces Handout, Merge Cube template

• Video: McGurk Effect (full video)

• Websites: 3D Drawing Pad, 3D Drawing Gallery, VR Javascript, CoSpaces

• Apps: Google Cardboard (iPhone - Android), CoSpaces (iPhone - Android)

• Hour Of Code: Pirate Plunder, Robot Rattle

• Materials: Google Cardboard

Introduction to JavaScript

• Documents: Presentation, HTML and CSS information

• Websites: Try it Editor, W3Schools - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Color picker

• Examples: Temperature converter

Introduction to Python

• Documents: Presentation, Presentation (Mini Camp), Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Notebooks: Notebooks, Introduction and Make a Python Game, Word Cloud from Wikipedia, Solution Guessing Game

• Websites: Jupyter, Google Colaboratory

Machine Learning

• Documents: Presentation, Presentation Mini Camp, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Notebooks: Python Introduction, Fruit Classifier, Cat Classifier

• Videos: Machine Learning Recipes with Josh Gordon (not shown in class)

• Websites: Digit Classifier Tool, Drawing Completion Tool, Teachable Machine (old version), Tensorflow Playground, Classifier Page Builder, Webcam Pacman (not shown in class)

Making a Website using HTML and CSS

• Documents: Presentation

• Activities: Getting to know HTML and CSS, Flamingo page example, HTML and CSS information sheet

• Websites: Codepen, W3Schools

Making Video Games

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites and Materials: See Introduction to VR and Game Physics classes.

Mars Explorer

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: App Lab, Numbers API, NASA Open APIs, JSON Formatting Tool

• Demo Apps: Fun with numbers, Fun Facts

• Mars Explorer Apps: Version 1, Version 2, Deluxe Version (all rovers and calendar view).

Object Oriented Programming in Python

• Documents: Presentation, Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Notebooks: Python Refresher, Objects in Python, Create a Card Game, Card Game Solution

• Websites: Why is Object Oriented Programming Useful?, Card Game Article

Photo Editing

• Documents: Presentation, Handout

• Website: Pixlr Editor, Image Processing Example 1, Image Processing Example 2

Robots

• Documents: Presentation, Program Edison Handout

• Websites: Edison Programming Environment

• Videos: Robot back flip, Robot doing dishes

• Materials: Edison Robots

Robots - MicroBit Edition

• Documents: Presentation

• Videos: Robot back flip, Robot doing dishes

• Websites: MicroBit Information, MicroBit Coding (robot extension preloaded)

• Example code: Square, Avoid obstacles, Dance - First Robot, Other Robots

• Materials: MicroBit, Maqueen robot, Maqueen robot tutorials

Smart Apps

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Thunkable, Thunkable App IOS, Thunkable App Android

Spreadsheets

• Documents: Presentation

• Data links: www.data.gov - (class data are generated in class using a Google form)

• Video: Spreadsheet Standup Comedy

Text Mining

• Documents: Presentation, Presentation (Camp), Python Cheat Sheets, Jupyter Notebooks (GitHub)

• Notebooks: Python Refresher, Book Length, Most Popular Words, Most Popular Spells, Sentiment Analysis, Bonus - Star Wars

• Websites: Jupyter, Harry Potter Chapter 13, TalkToTransformer

Where Do Emojis Come From?

• Documents: Presentation

• Websites: Emoji Maker, HTML Emoji Coding, HTML Emoji Modifiers, JavaScript Emoji Coding, Emojipedia

• Videos: Who Invented Emojis?, The Apple Emoji Origin Story, Where Do Emojis Come From?

You can code

• Documents: Presentation

• Video: What most schools don't teach

• Website: Blockly Games