Learn to Teach Java: Boolean Expressions, If Statements, and Iteration
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Learn to Teach Java: Boolean Expressions, If Statements, and Iteration
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Instructor: Beth Simon
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Learn to program with Boolean Expressions, If Statement, and For and While Loops in Java, and prepare to teach others using the free, online interactive CS Awesome textbook. In this course for teachers we'll guide you both in learning Java concepts and skills but also in how to effectively teach those to your students.
This course will support you in teaching the Advanced Placement Computer Science A course or a similar introductory university-level programming course. We'll cover the critical Java concepts of selection (if statements) and iteration (loops), as covered in the APCS A Units 3 and 4. Each topic will begin by relating Java to block-based programming languages and then provide video overviews of CS Awesome content along with additional materials to supplement learning for your students. You'll engage with additional materials to support your teaching including "deep dive" classroom discussion questions, assessment overviews, code tracing and problem solving skills for your students, including preparation for free response coding questions.
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What's included
2 videos2 readings
2 videos•Total 11 minutes
- Welcome!•4 minutes
- Optional: Welcome to the Learn to Teach Java Specialization•8 minutes
2 readings•Total 18 minutes
- Make an Account on these Sites•15 minutes
- Using Googledocs in this Course•3 minutes
Programs would be very boring (and not useful) if they always performed the same instructions every time we ran them. We'll see how boolean expressions can be sued to control selection (if statements) to allow instructions be done based on some condition (e.g, randomness or user input). Using CS Awesome, we'll learn to create boolean expressions including logical AND and OR operators and how to use these to control if statements to allow programs to check conditions to vary behavior.
What's included
17 videos7 assignments
17 videos•Total 144 minutes
- From Block to Text: Boolean Expressions and If Statements•12 minutes
- Boolean Expressions•8 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Prime Numbers•6 minutes
- If Statements and Control Flow•15 minutes
- Optional: Advanced/Differentiated Problem for 3.2•5 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Magic 8 Ball•7 minutes
- Two-way Selection: If-else Statements•11 minutes
- Programming Challenge: 20 Questions•6 minutes
- Multi-selection: else-if Statements•9 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Adventure•7 minutes
- Compound Boolean Expressions•13 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Truth Tables•6 minutes
- Equivalent Boolean Expressions•7 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Truth Tables (AGAIN!)•10 minutes
- Comparing Objects•12 minutes
- FAST: Programming Challenge: Tracing Code•5 minutes
- Magpie Chat Lab (Recommendation: Skip It)•6 minutes
7 assignments•Total 142 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.1•16 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.2•19 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.3•19 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.4•17 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.5•26 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.6•30 minutes
- CS Awesome 3.7•15 minutes
This week we'll go deeper and engage with some resources to support your teaching. You'll explore some questions to use in classroom analysis discussions (Peer Instruction), learn how these concepts are commonly assessed, prepare to help students who are having trouble with CS Awesome assessments, and begin to scaffold students problem solving skills. Finally, you can check your own Unit 3 Java and Java Teacher mastery on our end of Unit 3 quizzes.
What's included
7 videos5 readings2 assignments1 app item1 discussion prompt
7 videos•Total 68 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 1•10 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 2•10 minutes
- Teaching Code Tracing•9 minutes
- Assessment Options Part 1•11 minutes
- Assessment Options Part 2•10 minutes
- Developing Problem Solving Skills Part 1•6 minutes
- Developing Problem Solving Skills Part 2•11 minutes
5 readings•Total 45 minutes
- Optional: Read me if you haven't used Perusall for Classroom Discussions before•0 minutes
- What is rubber duck debugging?•10 minutes
- Examples: Code Tracing Videos for Students•15 minutes
- How to adapt CodingBat questions for Unit 3•15 minutes
- Helping Students Debug•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 51 minutes
- Unit 3 Java Mastery Quiz•26 minutes
- Unit 3 Teacher Mastery Quiz•25 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Boolean Expressions and If Statements•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 2 minutes
- Do you have a different online code tracing tool to recommend?•2 minutes
Iteration, the power to repeat a set of instructions, is where the full power of computing comes from. Really, without it, we wouldn't have computers. Using CS Awesome, we'll learn to define conditional (while) and counted (for) loops and start to see the kind of more interesting things we can do with loops!
What's included
19 videos5 assignments
19 videos•Total 152 minutes
- Block to Text: Iteration Part 1•9 minutes
- Block to Text: Iteration Part 2•13 minutes
- While Loops Part 1•11 minutes
- While Loops Part 2•7 minutes
- While Loops Part 3•7 minutes
- Optional Extra: Indenting and Grading•2 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Guessing Game (a really good one!)•11 minutes
- For Loops•13 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Turtles Drawing Shapes•3 minutes
- Loops and Strings Intro (4.3)•9 minutes
- For Loops and Strings (4.3.2)•15 minutes
- While Loops and Strings: Parsons' Remove a (4.3.1)•6 minutes
- While Loops and Strings: Find and Replace (4.3.1)•8 minutes
- Programming Challenge: String Replacement Cats and Dogs•4 minutes
- Nested Loops•10 minutes
- Programming Challenge: Turtle Snowflakes•5 minutes
- Loop Analysis (& Tracing)•5 minutes
- Tracing Demos 4.5•7 minutes
- Tracing Demos 4.5 Programming Challenge•6 minutes
5 assignments•Total 106 minutes
- CS Awesome 4.1•28 minutes
- CS Awesome 4.2•24 minutes
- CS Awesome 4.3•0 minutes
- CS Awesome 4.4•24 minutes
- CS Awesome 4.5•30 minutes
This week we'll go deeper and engage with some resources to support your teaching. You'll explore some questions to use in classroom analysis discussions (Peer Instruction) and learn how these concepts are commonly assessed. This Unit we have a large number of resources not found in CS Awesome to help students understand how they can use the Java concepts we've learned to solve some real-world problems. Finally, you can check your own Unit 4 Java and Java Teacher mastery on our end of Unit 4 quizzes.
What's included
15 videos2 readings2 assignments1 app item
15 videos•Total 113 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 1•10 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 2•7 minutes
- (More) Code Tracing•7 minutes
- Assessment Options Part 1•9 minutes
- Assessment Options Part 2•9 minutes
- English Descriptions: A Software Developer Skill•4 minutes
- Loops: Free-Response Question Overview•4 minutes
- Problem Solving: Gathering•9 minutes
- Problem Solving: Counting - Part 1•6 minutes
- Problem Solving: Counting - Part 2•10 minutes
- Problem Solving: Checking - Part 1•7 minutes
- Problem Solving: Checking - Part 2•7 minutes
- Problem Solving: Checking - Part 3•7 minutes
- Problem Solving: Most Wanted - Part 1•6 minutes
- Problem Solving: Most Wanted - Part 2•9 minutes
2 readings•Total 38 minutes
- Classroom Discussion Code Tracing Videos for Students•26 minutes
- Agile Development in 5 minutes•12 minutes
2 assignments•Total 55 minutes
- Unit 4 Java Mastery Quiz•25 minutes
- Unit 4 Teacher Mastery Quiz•30 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
- Classroom Discussions: Iteration•60 minutes
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