Welcome
- Welcome to the Computer Club
- My name is Mr. Abrams
- What should we do?
Computers are the Best Tool
We are tool makers.
Computers are our best tool.
Why do think this is true?
Computers are Easy
Computers are Complex
You’ll Program Computers
- Business person to analyze market trends
- Engineer to build new things
- Scientist to analyze data
Programming is Good
- Learn more about this tool
- Learn to think logically
- Learn to solve big problems
How Should we Learn?
- Fall Quarter
- Winter Quarter
- Spring Quarter
We will Make a Blog
What is a blog?
What is a Blog?
Easy way to publish essays, reports, news and journal entries on the Internet.
Why is a Blog good?
Two Green Leaves
Blog Examples
What if I don’t like blogs?
- Make Interactive Fiction
Make Games with Scratch
Class Structure
- Learn at your Pace:
- As fast or slow as you want
- Have fun with this at home
Advice
- Take advantage of this opportunity
- Don’t play games (do that at home)
- Don’t do too much artwork
- Ask me questions, I’m here for you
- Don’t be disruptive
- Use headphones
- Enjoy yourself
Terminology
Web is built on words:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Blog
HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- Page Structure … like a Skeleton
CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Makes a web page pretty
- … like skin, hair or feathers
JavaScript
- Programming language
- Makes a web page do stuff
- Graphic animations
Blog
- Originally called a web log
- Easy to make lots of web pages
- Need to know HTML, CSS and even JavaScript
