STEP Introduction To Programming (Technology)

Adelphi University

Course#: STEP 160 Introduction To Computer Programming

Class Time: Saturday Section 1 10:00 - 11:00 ; Section 2 11:00 - 12:00 in Science 227

Instructor: Professor Pepper

Office: POST 103 1rst Floor (Behind the SBarro's cafeteria)

Telephone: 516-297-5241

E-mail: pepper@adelphi.edu

http://www.adelphi.edu/~pe16132

Tools:

Alice Assignments should be done using the free Alice 2.3 development environment from www.alice.org.

Great lessons: https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/

Many tutorials: http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/tutorials.php

Schedule

This is a weekly schedule. The professor reserves the right to change this schedule.

Week	Subject	Some activities
10/13	Getting Started with Alice	Using any two characters from the Alice Gallery, design and build a world in which one tells the other a knock-knock joke. Include your own name in the conversation (ex: Hi Kris Pepper, Who's There?). Make your story end with both characters laughing. See www.knock-knock-joke.com for ideas if you need. Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ lesson 1 &2
10/27	Methods	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 3 & 4 write a movie script for a partner (and code it)
12/1	Simple Events	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 5
1/5	Loops, BillBoards, Events, Sounds	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 6
1/19	Decisions & Functions	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 8
2/2	Method parameters & Lists	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 10 & 11
3/2	While	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 12
3/23	Variables	Using https://sites.google.com/site/alicewithmsdistler/ Lesson 13
4/20	Permutations	Using Line Up activity from http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice09/tutorials.php (or another activity depending upon our grasp)
5/4	Project Work
5/18	Celebration