1. Silicon Valley CSTA Presents: The Beauty and Joy of Computing Josh Paley, Teacher Computer Science & Mathematics Henry M. Gunn HS (Palo Alto, CA)

2. The Beauty and Joy of Computing Part of AP CS Principles project – https://advancesinap.collegeboard.org/stem/compute r-science-principles https://advancesinap.collegeboard.org/stem/compute r-science-principles Computational Thinking Practices Big Ideas UC-Berkeley class (CS 10) – http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ Scroll down for professional development – Most recent: http://cs10.org/sp15/http://cs10.org/sp15/ Curriculum – http://bjc.berkeley.edu/website/curriculum.html http://bjc.berkeley.edu/website/curriculum.html

3. Snap! About: http://snap.berkeley.edu/http://snap.berkeley.edu/ Programming environment: http://snap.berkeley.edu/ http://snap.berkeley.edu/ – Scratch on steroids Heavy Simply Scheme influenceSimply Scheme – Functional Programming – Sequential Programming – Object-Oriented system coming! – Lacks Scratch’s online community construct

4. Tonight: Hands-on Projects Until We Run Out Of Time http://paleyontology.com/csp/teachers/ for mini-class for teachers http://paleyontology.com/csp/teachers/ http://paleyontology.com/csp/ for what we do at Gunn for students http://paleyontology.com/csp/ Field of Flowers Project (building an abstraction) – Draw Square – Draw Polygon – Draw Flower – Draw Field of Flowers Fractal Trees (visual hook, interesting math) Vee demo (higher-order function, unusual recursion)