Today’s Goals:

• Learn about the field of computer science
• Challenge yourself and learn something new from an Hour of Code activity

 Today’s featured site:

• https://www.tasteatlas.com/ – Find out what foods are popular in different parts of the world!

 Hour of Code

•  What is it?
  • For the past few years millions of people in nearly 200 countries have participated in the Hour of Code. This event is held during the first week of December and was launched to promote computer science learning.
•  What will you learn?
  • This year we will focus on programming a simple progress bar in JavaScript; artificial intelligence (what it is and examples of how it’s influencing websites and apps), and college and career options for computer science and/or web development.
•  How is it different than what we do in this class?
  • In this class you are learning how to create webpages, which are viewed in browsers. The code you learn- HTML, CSS, JavaScript- is for creating a webpage to run in a browser. Web development is a sub-field of computer science. The Hour of Code activities focus on the broad field of computer science, which includes programming applications and software, artificial intelligence, web development, and game development, among many other things.
•  Our activity
  • We are going to code a progress bar in JavaScript inside of a Google Slide presentation
    Video tutorial link 
    Finished product demo 
    Options: follow along with me OR work at your own pace following the videos (use headphones)
    Tools: web browser and Google account (personal or school)
    Submit for credit: SHARE your Google Slide presentation when you’re done, regardless of whether you finish! Share with agoldsberry@medford.k12.ma.us