Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Image File Types and Size
There are so many different ways to save an image file it can be mind boggling. If you want to know whether to save your favorite photo as a jpeg, bmp, gif, or tiff then try this simple experiment.
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Science Buddies: Computer Sleuth: Identification by Text Analysis
Here's a project where you can try your hand at being a detective with your computer. In this project you'll write a program to do some basic analysis of features of written text (for example, counting the length of each word in the...
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Science Buddies: Program to Check a Sudoku Solution
Sudoku puzzles have become extremely popular over the past couple of years. You can find books of puzzles for beginners to experts, and many newspapers print Sudoku puzzles daily. This project challenges you to write a computer program...
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Science Buddies: The Perfect Marriage of Computer Science & Medicine
Find out the real explanation for why your parents are so weird. Here is a project that lets you explore the internet to find out why your "DNA blueprint" is so important to health and disease. In this project you will use methods that...
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Science Buddies: Circumscribing a Circle About a Triangle
Here is a project that combines Computer Science and Mathematics. Prove a method for circumscribing a circle about a triangle (as shown). You'll also learn how to create an interactive diagram to illustrate your proof, using an applet...
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Science Buddies: Taking Off on a Tangent
This is an interesting geometry project that goes back to the time of Archimedes, the famous Greek mathematician. You can combine this mathematical project with computer science and take this ancient problem into the twenty-first century...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
A complete course on theoretical Computer Science presented at the college undergraduate level. The course attempts to describe Computer Science beyond the computer, focusing on mathematical tools, complex systems and classic problems,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Human Intelligence Enterprise
This course is part of the artificial intelligence studies at MIT. The course is designed to help students learn about the scientific goal of understanding human intelligence from a computational point of view.
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Science Buddies: Image Compression vs. Image Quality: Finding the Best Tradeoff
In this project you'll learn about how digital image files are encoded, and how digital images can be compressed so that the files take up less storage space and can be transmitted more quickly. You will also measure the quality of...
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Science Buddies: Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project
This project is a fun way to try your hand at programming. You'll learn how to create some simple animations, and you'll perform tests and make measurements to help you create more realistic-looking animations. All you need to get...
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Science Buddies: Programming Nanor Gs in a Virtual World
Imagine yourself as a software engineer, a decade and a half from now. You are called upon to help solve the world energy crisis by programming nano-organisms (NANORGs) to extract energy from industrial sludge. Your program must be small...
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Python Edition
Python is a popular programming language for both beginning programmers and seasoned veterans. This free digital book teaches how to think like a computer scientist using the Python programming language.
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Robotc: Thinking About Programming: Programmer & Machine [Pdf]
In this lesson, students learn about the roles of the programmer and the robot, and how the two need to work together in order to accomplish their goal. Students also understand logic behind the robot's actions, and break a big plan down...
University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Primary Enrichment Program [Pdf]
This unit introduces students to some of the building blocks of how computers work without using a computer at all. The lessons keep students actively involved in communication, problem solving, creativity, and thinking skills in...
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Iste: Computational Thinking for All
Advances in computing have expanded our capacity to solve problems at a scale never before imagined, using strategies that have not been available to us before. This professional article introduces educators to the idea of teaching...
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Code.org
Code.org wants to inspire all students to participate in computer science. The interactive digital courses are meant to ensure each and every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science at every grade level. The...
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Programming Simplified: Java Programs
See some examples made for beginning programmers to understand how to use java to write simple Java programs. These codes demonstrate how to get input from user, working with loops, strings and arrays.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computational Thinking
Introduce the Computational Thinking model as a way of preparing real-world problems for digital representation. With nothing but paper and markers, students learn the four steps of computational thinking.
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Codecademy
Codecademy is a creation designed to educate users in writing code, using JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and other programs. Review tutorials, create web designs, interactives, and apps, and collaborate or share with the Codecademy...
Northwestern University
Northwestern University: Ct Stem Project: Computational Thinking: Lessons
Northwestern University frames lessons which bring computational thinking enhanced activities into STEM classrooms.
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Code Combat
This computer programming game allows students to learn how to write code. Learners write code in real programming languages.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Studying Evolution With Digital Organisms
Students observe natural selection in action and investigate the underlying mechanism, including random mutation and differential fitness based on environmental characteristics. They do this through use of the free AVIDA-ED digital...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hurricane! Saving Lives With Reasoning & Computer Science
Students develop and apply the distance formula and an x-y coordinate plane on a hurricane tracking map, and then use a map scale to determine distance in miles. Then, using MATLAB computer science programming language, students help...
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Teach Engineering: Evolution of Digital Organisms
Students are introduced to the concepts of digital organisms and digital evolution. They learn about the research that digital evolution software makes possible, and compare and contrast it with biological evolution.