AP CSP Computer Science Principles
Assignments
Week 1: Sep 3 - Sep 6
- Homework: 3 Things - Fri Sep 6
- 2 items of personal interest
- 1 item of technology (not phones, or laptops) - Homework: Blog Post - for Mon Sep 9
- Interview an adult and ask, "What computing innovation has had the most impact on your life? In what ways has your life been affected?" Record the adult’s answer and compare and contrast the answer with your own post from today - Discuss: Class Protocols & Work Rubric
- View: Computer Science is Changing Everything
Vocab Week 1
- abstraction - complexity made simple - a general idea or term used to represent much more detailed information, Abstraction is used to remove unnecessary details. For example, after you create a procedure or function and test it, you can call it without having to think about how it works. In levels of the Internet is means that you don't need to worry or understand details about each layer doing its job - you can assume it will work
- high level programming language: A programming language with many commands and features designed to make common tasks easier to program. Any high level functionality is encapsulated as combinations of low level commands
- innovation - an improvement to an existing idea
- invention - a completely new product or idea
- low level programming language: A programming language that captures only the most primitive operations available to a machine. Anything that a computer can do can be represented with combinations of low level command
- protocol - A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between device, or the correct conduct and procedures in a social situation
- source code - a program written in a language that a human can understand - it it the original code of a program before it is compiled and assembled into Object or Machine Code