1. Introdution to Computer Science ICS3U/4U

2.  New room!!!  Respect it  Wooden tables  No food/drink  Bathroom – one at a time  Course outline – coming soon!  Mainly project-based  Written tests as well  Video Friday – submissions welcomed WELCOME!

3.  After taking this course, you will know how to “program a computer”  Giving a set of instructions to a computer and “making it do stuff”  Programming has evolved and will always do so  Why should you learn to code? COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

4.  There are many different languages and styles of computer programming  Web programming  HTML – making webpages and websites  CSS – styling websites (making them look pretty)  PHP, JavaScript – making interactive websites that accept information from a user  mySQL – creating and maintaining a database to hold information from users  Basic structural concepts of programming  Logic – making decisions  Loops – doing things over and over Ultimately, you are learning how to CREATE and how to PROBLEM SOLVE. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

5. EDMODO  A course management system  All links, content will be posted  Message board  I can contact you and vice versa  You can use it to plan, store files…  Download the app – use on your phone, tablet, PC, Mac

6. LET’S GET SIGNED UP! Take the time now to go to edmodo.com, download the app and create your profile.

7.  A website that offers free web hosting with no advertising  All year long, we will need a space online to post our website  Allows us to continually upload new content  Let’s go sign up!!! 000WEBHOST

8.  Allows you to have full running programs on your USB stick  Keep in mind as the year goes on  Don’t need it all PORTABLE APPS

9.  Changes too fast for the school to purchase…  I will be using this:  Resources available online TEXTBOOK???

10.  Your first website will involve the following pages:  Home  About Me  Academic Portfolio  Computer Science  Extracurriculars  Favorite Links  Other  Today, your job is to start thinking about what content you are going to want on each page!  You should open a document online or locally and start jotting down ideas about what should be included on each page  What is important to you? What are you passionate about?  Each page can have subpages as well FIRST PROJECT – WEBSITE ABOUT YOU

11.  Be sure to save when finished as we will be using this later  M: drive  USB (should never be the only place)  FirstClass  RECOMMENDED: Cloud – Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive…  Always, always, back up to multiple places!!!  I cannot help you with lost work FIRST PROJECT – WEBSITE ABOUT YOU