Newton Girls Who Code

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Monday Session 14, 2019-02-10

Welcome!

(Let us know if you would like advice about your project)

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Plan for Today

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1. Spotlight: Women Who Code
2. Name Game: GWC Name game
1. Programming Concept: Functions
3. Project Time
4. Stand Up meeting
5. Coding Time

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Spotlight: Women Who Code

Tarah Wheeler

Watch Video

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• Being a computer scientist is about more than just being great at coding - How does Tarah Wheeler inspire people to become better consumers?

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• According to Tarah, why is security important for online transactions, products, and toys? Do you agree?

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• What are some steps you can take to become more secure as a consumer?

Plan for Today

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1. Spotlight: Women Who Code
2. Name Game: GWC Name game
3. Programming Concept: Functions
4. Project Time
5. Stand Up meeting
6. Coding Time

Name Game

• The oldest person in the room starts with the bag of questions
• Remove a question from the bag and read it out loud
• each person can have one redo, if necessary
• Answer the question
• Choose the next person by calling out their name and passing them the bag
• it's okay to ask their name if you're not sure
• Play until everyone has has had one turn.

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Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Name Game: GWC Name game
• Programming Concept: Functions
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

Programming Concept: Functions

• What is a Function?
• a named section of a program that performs a specific task
• Why use Functions?
• Abstraction

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"Black box" - don't need to know how it works

Has a known _interface_

what does it need: a phone number

what does it do: calls a particular person

◦ Modularity

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Different self-contained pieces

allows re-use, mix & match

• each piece is small enough to understand and troubleshoot (debug)
• once built, can be re-used with other modules for more complex programs

Programming Concept: Functions

get_input()

Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Name Game: GWC Name game
• Programming Concept: Functions
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

Continue working on your projects!

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Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Name Game: GWC Name game
• Programming Concept: Functions
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

… Stand Up Meeting

Stand Up Routine

1. Get together in your project groups.
2. Take turns sharing your answers to today’s questions to the rest of the class.

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Possible Questions to Answer

• What kinds of Women Who Code would you like to hear more about?
• What question(s) would you like to add to the bag of questions?
• What would you like to see more of / less of at our sessions?
• Is there something new you'd like to do at GWC in 2019?

Plan for Today

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• Spotlight: Women Who Code
• Name Game: GWC Name game
• Programming Concept: Functions
• Project Time
• Stand Up meeting
• Coding Time

Coding Time

• Go to the Learn section of hq.girlswhocode.com.

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• Sit with someone from your project group if you're focusing on project work

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• OR choose activities outside of girlswhocode.com:
• https://repl.it/community (info)
• https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css
• https://learn.adafruit.com/makecode/what-is-makecode
• https://hourofcode.com/us/learn
• https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python or https://www.learnpython.org/
• https://www.madewithcode.com/projects/
• http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials?

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Instructors take attendance

See you in two weeks!

Don’t forget to be awesome!

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