Welcome to Mr. Liconti's Introduction to Computer Science, Grade 11 university preparation course (ICS3U1).

We will be using the Python language throughout the course. The focus of the course will be computer environments and systems, programming concepts and skills, software development, and topics in computer science.

Course Map

Lesson 1:

• Welcome!

• Course Introduction

• Staying Healthy

  • Anxiety & Stress

  • Health & Safety

  • DPCDSB Health & Safety

• Profile Cards

• Understanding the Schedule or the Summer School Schedule

• Academic Support Attendance - Google Classroom

• Student Dashboard

• Fire Plan & Safety

• Semester at a glance - Course Map

• ics3u1.liconti.ca overview (Course Outline, Calendar, Term work and Final work)

• Join Google Classroom

• Connect to Wi-Fi / password reset

• Plagiarism

• Knowing who you are logged in as when using your Chrome browser

• Install the Google Classroom App on your phone.

• Contacting me

• What do classes look like? or the Summer School Schedule

Lesson 2:

• Unit 0

  • Taking notes using the Reading and Viewing Guide

  • Computer Components

  • Binary Numbers

  • Logic Gates

  • Converting to and from Base 2 (Binary) to Base 10

  • Logic Gate Calculator

  • Computer Specifications

  • Computer Peripheral Devices

  • Computer Components Involved in Executing Programming Operations

  • What is Programming?

  • File Maintenance and the Programming Rubric

  • Malware: Difference Between Computer Viruses, Worms and Trojans / Worms, Viruses, Trojans (for fun)

• Problem Set 0 - See Calendar for Due Date

  • Software Development - Languages

  • What is an application?

  • What is an operating system?

  • What if the operating system was a browser? (for fun)

Lesson 3:

• Unit 1 overview

• 1.1 Getting to know Python

• Using Replit

Lesson 4

• 1.1 - I/O

• Python Variables, Data Types and Keywords

• Python Operators

• Input - Processing - Output, and Comments

• Handing In Work - GOOGLE CLASSROOM

• Errors, Tracing and Walkthrough

• Problem Set 1 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 5

• 1.2 - Loops

• Repetition (Loops) - For and While

  • For Loop

  • Nested Loop

  • While Loop

  • Flags

• User Input and Loops

• Problem Set 2 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 6

• 1.3 - If

• Selection - If statements

• Documentation Levels

• Problem Set 3 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 7

• 1.4 - Problem Solving

  • Putting it all together

• Debugging with IDLE

• Walkthrough / Trace Table / Tracking Technique aka, how to write a quiz.

  • Are there any sample quizzes ?

• Problem Set 4 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 8

• 1.5 - Random Numbers

• Random Numbers

• Problem Set 5 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 9

• 1.6 - Functions

• Functions

• Problem Set 6 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 10

• 1.7 - Strings

• Strings

  • Greatest Hits: built in String functions

  • Indexing and Slicing

• Problem Set 7 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 11

• 1.8 - Lists

• Lists, aka Data Structures, aka Arrays

• Cool things: Tuples and Dictionaries

• Problem Set 8 - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 12

• Unit 2 - Software Development

  • SDLC

  • Gantt Chart

  • Test Plan

• Rock, Paper, Scissors project - See Calendar for Due Date

• Rock, Paper, Scissors ALTERNATE project - See Calendar for Due Date

• easyGUI

• guizero

Lesson 13

• Unit 3 - Topics in Computer Science

• How Not to Make a Presentation

• Database Research

• Unit 3 Assignment - See Calendar for Due Date

Lesson 14

• Exception Handling

• Culminating Performance Task (CPT) - See Calendar for Due Date