CS Head Start

Fall 2020

Schedule

Wednesday

10:00 – 10:30am Warmup

We will introduce the activities for the day and do a warmup exercise.

10:30 – 11:15am CS History and Careers

We will go through a brief background on CS and possible career paths within this discipline.

11:15 – 11:30am 15m Break

During this break, you may optionally respond to the following poll:

11:30 – 12:00pm Learning Center

We will have a presentation from Rachel Brunson, Assistant Director of the Learning Center and Haley Riechman (Program Assistant). The Learning Center is USF’s home for academic support services, which are free for all enrolled students.

12:00 – 01:00pm 60m Lunch Break

The Zoom livestream will be left on in case you want to enjoy lunch with the other program participants.

01:00 – 01:30pm Computer Hardware

We will watch Henry Cavil put together a gaming PC as a quick introduction, and then dive into taking apart a computer live, discussing the components, putting it back together again, and making sure it still runs.

01:30 – 02:00pm CS Unplugged

We will do a modified version of Parity Magic exercise from the CS Unplugged website in class.

02:00 – 02:15pm 15m Break

The ambient sound for this break is provided by:

02:15 – 03:00pm Command Line Mystery

In this part, we will use what we have learned to log into the CLI of one of our CS lab computers and solve a command-line murder mystery.

03:00 – 03:30pm 30m Social Break

Time for a social break! We will break into small groups and participate in a social activity.

03:30 – 05:00pm Programming

Here are the lessons for the programming sessions:

Additional instructions will be given during each programming session.

05:00 – 07:00pm 2h Dinner Break

That is the end of our official program! The livestream will be stopped at this point. After 2 hour break for dinner, we will return to start an optional social.

07:00 – 08:00pm Optional Social

This is an optional social. We will play Drawful 2 using the same Zoom meeting room as before.

P.S. We will get the social kicked off, but the professor(s) will leave after 15 minutes for the rest of you to enjoy the game.