Slides and more for the workshop: build, tinker, code, inspire
Day 1
Morning 1 (9 am) Introductions
Make a computer from a Raspberry Pi.
The internet is about wires and circuits. Computer core. Raspberry Pi foundation. Front end/Back End. client/server
Morning 2 (10.30 am) Arduino microcontroller, and electronics
Downloading the Arduino IDE; about IDE’s (coding environments).; microprocessors, and their use in collecting data; Harlem Heat Project; monitoring air quality
Lunch (12-1) Tech videos
Afternoon 1 (1 pm) Terminal;
Automation/applets/twitter bots;https://ifttt.com/discover
APIs and Blockchain;
getting data;
Processing.org;
Plus more on Raspberry Pi and Arduino
(and, What is Scratch?
Afternoon 2 (2.15 pm) Project time/Further exploration of classroom application
Day 2
Morning 1 (9 am) Intro to Python Python is a back-end language that powers 1/3 of the internet. We’ll learn some basic programs, using trinket.io
Morning 2 (10.30) Python, continued
Lunch (12-1) Tech videos
Afternoon 1 Q and A/Conversation. Individual projects/work on Python code or website code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
These can be particular to your teaching, or can be more general learning to code/build. Suggestions offered.
Afternoon 2 (2 pm) Project Demo/Discussion on classroom integration