Educator Resources

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Ideas 3 Materials 4 Tutorials & Videos 5 Lecture Notes, PPTs, Videos,and Example Assignments 6 Class Websites

Introduction

This page contains lecture notes, PowerPoint slides, and activity suggestions to assist you with teaching CS 1 with Robots. The material is loosely organized following the outline of the IPRE textbook, but you are encouraged to mix and match. Lecture notes are provided for teachers who like to program in front of their class and work examples in python live or on the board. Powerpoint slides can be a useful starting point for your own prepared lectures. In class activities are useful for small classes or lab/recitation sections. If you find problems with or make improvements to any of these materials we would love to incorporate your changes, please email [Jay Summet] with your improvements.

Ideas

• Assignments Brain Storming
• Demo Programs - list of demonstration programs by topic

Materials

Tutorials & Videos

• Personal Robots as Vehicles for Introductory Computer Science and Beyond - Keith O'Hara's presentation at the ICRA 2008 tutorial in Pasadena, CA. May 2008.

• Elluminate Webinar - Introducing the Scribbler Robot and Myro - Jay Summet, 1 hour presentation demonstrating the basics of programming the scribbler robot with python. Simple sensors and actuators, along with photo manipulations and graphics. (Requires Java Web Start.)

• Class Webpage - CS 1301, Fall 2009 - Lecturer: Jay Summet, Georgia Institute of Technology In the resources column of this class webpage you will find complete recordings of the class lectures (in downloadable Quicktime .MOV files) and webcasts (viewable with any web-browser that supports Flash). Look for the "webcast" link in the resource column for each day's lecture.

Lecture Notes, PPTs, Videos,and Example Assignments

Topic	Powerpoint	Lecture Notes	Activities/Resources	Assignments
Introduction to Computing	Media:ShortHistoryOfComputing.ppt		CS110:Lab01
Introduction to the Robot	Media:robotIntroduction.ppt Media:ComputingAndRobots.pdf	Media:robotIntroduction.pdf	Media:Lab1.pdf
Algorithms	Media:theAlgorithm.ppt
Variables, Types & Math	Media:variablesTypesMath.ppt	Media:VariablesTypesMath.pdf
Functions	Media:Functions.ppt	Media:functions.pdf
Robot Sensors	Media:robotSensors.ppt		Sensor-Video.mpeg	RobotColorArena.pdf Media:AvoidWallAssignment.doc
Behavior based Control	Media:behavior.ppt		Media:behaviors.pyw Behaviors1.mpeg Behaviors2.mpeg
Images & Computer Vision	Media:images.ppt		media:findWall.pyw cv1.mpeg cv2.mpeg cv3.mpeg	media:findYellowWall.doc RobotColorArena.pdf
Reading Barcodes	Media:Barcodes.ppt		media:scan_barcodes.pyw media:barcode_color.gif media:BarcodesAE.doc barcode1.mpeg barcodes2.mpeg barcodes3.mpeg	Free Barcode Generator [
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Mid-Class Python Review	Media:python-review1.ppt Media:python-review2.ppt		review1.mpeg review2.mpeg
JavaScript for Python programmers	Media:javascript-python.ppt		[Alert Box] [For Loop]

GATech PowerPoint Template: Media:lecture-template.ppt. We recommend the VLC Player to view the MPEG4 video files.

Class Websites

• CS110 Lab - Fall 2009, Bryn Mawr College, Blank and Thomas
• CSC 190C - Fall 2009 Rochester, Koomen
• CS 1301 - Fall 2009 Georgia Tech, Summet
• IM115 - Fall 2009 Bradley University, Monica McGill
• CS1301 - Summer 2009 Georgia Tech, Summet
• CS1301 - Spring 2009 Georgia Tech, Summet
• CS110 - Spring 2009 Bryn Mawr, Kumar
• CS110 - Spring 2009 Bryn Mawr, Xu
• CS110 - Fall 2008 Bryn Mawr, Blank and Misra
• CS1301 - Fall 2008 Georgia Tech, Summet
• CS1301 - Fall 2007 Georgia Tech, Summet/O'Hara
• CS110 - Fall 2007 Bryn Mawr, Blank
• CS1301 - Summer 2007 Georgia Tech, Summet
• CS110 - Spring 2007 Bryn Mawr, Kumar