Week 1: Computer hardware/take apart a computer, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop
Week 2: Photoshop final project (product adversisements), HTML, CSS
Week 3: CSS Layouts, websites, web design final project, Intro to programming (PB&J and ice cream sundaes)
Week 4: Object-oriented programming (Tetris & Ms. Pacman), Alice, Python, Madlibs project, high/low project, internet security
Week 5: Intro to robots, Artificial Intelligence, robots
Guest lecturers:
- Prof. John Savage: nanotechnology
- Prof. Andy Van Dam: computer graphics & animation
- Heather Bell: body image
- Prof. Tom Doeppner: security
- Prof. Maurice Herlihy: parallel processing
- Prof. Ben Raphael: algorithms/computational biology
- Dan Grollman: robot soccer
- Anna Ritz: applications of computer science
- Prof. Sorin Istrail: computational biology
- Prof. David Laidlaw: scientific visualization
- Prof. Amy Greenwald: autonomous bidding agents
- Goldman Sachs
- Crystal Kahn: algorithms/sorting
- CAVE: virtual reality
Thanks to all of our faculty and industry lecturers!