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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Computer Programming II - Project Rotations begin ..


After a month of planning, we started our project rotations in Computer Programming II.  Our rotation has four stations ... arduinos, raspberry pi computers, Finch robots and AppInventor.

At our arduino stations, students are writing programs in C and then wired circuits to complete a project ... LED light displays, motors, piezo elements, pushbuttons, potentiometers, photo resistors, temperature sensors, and more.



Tomorrow, we will be working on our finch obstacle courses and tasks (the FINCH dance).  Students will be writing programs using SNAP (similar to Scratch) to help their Finches through an obstable course.




We have one of our Raspberry Pi computers working and today downloaded the OS (NOOBS) onto SD cards.  Tomorrow, we will test the new SD cards and begin on our first Raspberry Pi problem.

We are still trying to get AppInventor working on our network and Dell Computers.  Once we get the bugs resolved, we will try out one of the first three beginning sample apps.

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