HNRS 2200, Spring 2021 - John David N. Dionisio, PhD

HNRS 2200

Brightspace: Where you can access recordings of synchronous class sessions and supplementary asynchronous content, as well as check your grades
We will look at some lessons from Khan Academy
We will write code using Repl.it and CodePen
Some information regarding being fully online

Video journal entries (50 points each, roughly every other Friday starting 0115 and skipping breaks): 0115, 0129, 0212, 0226, 0319, 0330, 0416, 0430 (overall recap)
- 0115: Kickoff reading—Computing is a Natural Science by Peter Denning
  1. Pick a principle that resonated with you the most and briefly state why
  2. Has this article changed anything about your impression of computer science?
- 0226: A little history, a little philosophy—Alan Turing’s seminal article Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Assignment 0119 repl.it and CodePen account listing: 20 points
- Khan Academy’s Introduction to JavaScript: Drawing & Animation lesson
- Their open-ended playground in case you want to try out what you’ve learned
Assignment 0204 Faces & Places: 80 points
- Khan Academy’s lesson on interactivity
Assignment 0311 Queries & Stories: 80 points
- Khan Academy’s lesson on arrays
- Khan Academy’s lesson on objects
- Khan Academy’s lesson on arrays of objects (which is actually inside the objects lesson)
- And no specific lesson but some other things to expressly think about: objects with arrays; arrays of objects with arrays; objects with arrays of objects; arrays of arrays; objects with objects; and on and on…
(these are actually embedded in the Drawing & Animation lesson but are worth a focus now)