UNM CS-390/590 and CS-108L: CS4All

UNM CS-390/590 and CS-108L: CS4All
Computer Science Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
CS4All is funded by the National Science Foundation

Course Description
CS-390/590 is a course designed for New Mexico high school science and mathematics teachers or prospective teachers who want to gain the skills necessary to teach an advanced placement, computer concepts course. In particular, CS-390/590 prepares teachers to be in-school, local lab instructors for UNM's dual-enrollment computer concepts course CS-108L, "Computer Science for All".

Both CS-390/590 and CS-108L offer an introduction to computer science through modeling and simulation. Students will learn agent-based modeling of complex systems, see the applicability of computer science across fields and discuss some of the "great ideas" in computer science. Neither course fulfills the computer science course requirements for a major in computer science.

CS-390 and CS-108 count as undergraduate elective credit for non-computer science majors.
CS-590 counts as graduate elective credit for non-computer science majors.

CS-108L is designed as a dual-enrollment course. This means that it can be taken by UNM students for collage credit and by New Mexico high school students for both high school and college credit.

CS-390/590 is a fully on-line course.
CS-108L is a hybrid course with the "lecture" part of the course taught on-line by UNM professors and the lab part of the course taught in-person at both UNM classrooms and across the state in participating high schools.

Pre-Requisites: None.
Co-Requisites: None.

Instructors:
Dave Ackley , Professor, Dept of Computer Science, UNM
Ed Angel, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Computer Science, UNM
Joel Castellanos Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science, UNM
Irene Lee , Research Scientist, Santa Fe Institute

Course Information:

Syllabus
Course Participants: Names and e-mail addresses of Instructors, Regional Facilitators, Students, Guests, and Support
UNM Academic Calendar: Listing of Holidays, Final's week, last day switch to Audit without the Dean's approval, and other academic dates. Note: The be sure to select the Spring 2013 semester. The default is Spring 2012 and back then they did not even put Saturdays and Sundays on the same dates as is done in the present day.

Video Lectures:
Week 1:

Introduction to CS4All, Irene Lee.
What is Computer Science?, Ed Angel
How to Download and Install NetLogo on a MacOS X, Irene Lee
How to Download and Install NetLogo on a Windows 7, Joel Castellanos.
Tour of the NetLogo Interface, Irene Lee.
Getting Started in NetLogo: Hello World and Turtle Graphics, Joel Castellanos.

Week 2:

Computational Science, Irene Lee.
Agent Based Modeling, Irene Lee.
NetLogo and the Random Walk (part 1), Joel Castellanos.
NetLogo and Wiggle Motion (part 2), Joel Castellanos.
Guest Lecture: Computer Science and Simulation in Emergency Planning , Stephen Guerin.
Stereotype threat: What does Stereotype threat look like in your school community and how might you combat it?, Joanne Cohoon of the University of Virginia.

Week 3:

Bits and Bytes: Part 1 Introduction, Ed Angel.
Bits and Bytes: Part 2 Numbers, Ed Angel.
Bits and Bytes: Part 3 More on Numbers, Ed Angel.
and more

Week 4:

Bits and Bytes: Part 4 Characters, Ed Angel.
Bits and Bytes: Part 5 Colors, Ed Angel.
and more

Lab Assignments:

NetLogo Lab 1: Your Name in Turtle Graphics
- Summery of Netlogo Commands Useful for Lab 1 by Maureen Psaila-Dombrowski
- Source Code: Simple Drawing Demo using Turtle Graphics by Nick Bennett. NOTE: Your browser WILL NOT display this file correctly. This file should be downloaded and saved as a .nlogo file. Remember where you save it. Finally, start NetLogo and use NetLogo to open this file.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Creighton Edington: Creighton created a procedure, decorate, that draws a Spirograph type design. He calls this same procedure many times to redraw the same decoration in many places in many colors.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Harry Henderson: Harry's program asks the user to input any name and then draws that name.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Judy Miller: Judy added a tripple nested Spirograph.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Melody Hagaman: Download this and get Melodized.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Sam Smith: Wow. Very cooly done - a lot to learn from this example.
- Source Code: Student Highlight by Wyatt Dumas: Wyatt encapsulated the code to draw his name in a procedure that accepts a location, angle and scale as arguments.
- Video: Code reuse in Lab 1 by Wyatt Dumas: Wyatt demos his "my name in Tutle Graphics" and explains how to reuse code in procedures to draw his name in different sizes.
NetLogo Lab 2: NetLogo Experiments in the Random Walk and Wiggle Motion
- Source Code: RandomWalk.Samuel.Smith.nlogo Random Walk: solution Plus, by Samuel Smith.
- Source Code: Wiggle.Samuel.Smith.nlogo Wiggle, by Samuel Smith.
- Source Code: Wiggle.larry.heard.nlogo Wiggle, by Larry Heard.