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Newton Girls Who Code

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Tuesday Session 2, 2018-10-23

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Welcome!

Please make yourself a name tag.

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Today’s Goals

Bathrooms and Water

  • Brainstorm and select a theme for our club project.
  • Start coding!

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  • Walk straight out the door and keep walking all the way to the end of the hall.
  • Go when you want, no need to ask for permission.
  • Hurry back -- you may be missing something neat.

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Plan for Today

  1. CS Impact Project Themes
  2. Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  3. Brainstorming - Find your focus
  4. Brainstorming - Pick your topic
  5. Coding time
  6. Stand Up meeting
  7. Chill time

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Spotlight: Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

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video

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Spend 5 minutes searching to find Interesting Facts!

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Plan for Today

  • CS Impact Project Themes
  • Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  • Brainstorming - Find your focus
  • Brainstorming - Pick your topic
  • Coding time
  • Stand Up meeting
  • Chill time

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CS Impact Project

  • Identify a common theme
    • Raising awareness about the importance of conserving water�
  • Get ideas for what to make while learning Core4�
  • Collaborate on related projects�
  • Design - Build - Test

http://newtongwc.github.io/monday.html

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CS Impact Project Themes: Brainstorming

For 2 minutes, generate as many topics as you can.

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Write each idea on its own sticky note.

(e.g. a project about internet safety for kids, )

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When you're done, put all your sticky notes up on the wall.

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Remember bravery not perfection — we want lots of ideas, we'll choose our favorite later.

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CS Impact Project Themes: Aggregation

While you read, keep an eye out for patterns and overlapping ideas.

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Move sticky notes around so that similar ideas or topics are grouped together.

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(e.g. "a project about the rainforest" and "a project about whales" could go in a nature/environment category)

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Some ideas may defy categorization, this is fine.

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When the arrangement looks good enough, step back to let others see.

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Plan for Today

  • CS Impact Project Themes
  • Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  • Brainstorming - Find your focus
  • Brainstorming - Pick your topic
  • Coding time
  • Stand Up meeting
  • Chill time

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CS Impact Project Themes: Pick your topic

  • As a group, make sure that everyone is familiar with each of the topics you've found so far.
  • Individually, draw a dot next to your top 3 topics.
  • Once everyone has placed their 3 votes, look at the results.

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Which topics got the most votes?

  • Identify the top 3 ideas with the most votes.
  • One more round of dot voting - one vote only
  • Whichever topic has the most votes after this round of dot voting will be the one your Club will create their project about!

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Plan for Today

  • CS Impact Project Themes
  • Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  • Brainstorming - Find your focus
  • Brainstorming - Pick your topic

Break

  • Coding time
  • Stand Up meeting
  • Chill time

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Coding Time

Let's explore coding!

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Pick your tutorial group first, someone you can turn to for help!

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Go to the Activity Sets page of hq.girlswhocode.com.

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Pick an activity set (e.g. Chatbot in Python) and go through the instructions to start learning.

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If you need to sign up for anything, use your club email and password.

https://trinket.io/

You can setup trinket account or use embedded Python window.

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Further Explorations: Mobile Apps?

GWC recommends Thunkable as a way to make Android apps.

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There is a Thunkable App for running your program on an Android phone or an emulator for running on a computer.

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You need a google account; club email won't work.

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They have some sample apps to get started with.

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Plan for Today

  • CS Impact Project Themes
  • Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  • Brainstorming - Find your focus
  • Brainstorming - Pick your topic
  • Coding time
  • Stand Up meeting
  • Chill time

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Stand Up Meeting

Stand Up Routine

  1. Form groups of about 4 people each.
  2. Take turns responding to this meeting’s questions.
  3. One person from your group will share a summary of your small discussion to the entire Club.

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Today's Questions

  • What did you learn about coding today? How could you apply it to another project?
  • What do you need more help on?
  • Show off what you’ve completed so far - don’t worry if you’re not done!

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Plan for Today

  • CS Impact Project Themes
  • Spotlight: Grace Hopper
  • Brainstorming - Find your focus
  • Brainstorming - Pick your topic
  • Coding time
  • Stand Up meeting
  • Chill time

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Chill Time

Have fun! Use this time to:

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  • Hang out with your friends
  • Geek out about hobbies, books, bands, comics, videos, etc.
  • Play video games
  • Write in a journal
  • Hack more code
  • Chat with the adults
  • Show off your side projects

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See you next week!

Don’t forget to be awesome!

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