Summer Computing Academy for students from underrepresented groups-- Tentative Program

August 1-5, 2016
Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

The program is tentative. Instructors: Stephen Guy (professor), Maria Gini (professor), and graduate students, Ernesto Nunes and Moses Adeagbo.

Please fill out this short survey It will help us plan the program for next Summer.

Monday
9:00-10:00Keller 4-204C introductions, go to computer lab
10:00-12:00Keller 1-250 Intro to linux and Python
12:00-1:30 Keller 4-204C lunch
1:30-3:20 Keller 1-250Python: functions. Turtle graphics.
3:30-4:30 Tour of Medical Devices Center
Tuesday
9:00-12:001-250 Keller Python: loops.
Try to write functions to solve these problems. Too simple? too hard?
12:00-12:45 Keller 4-204C lunch
1:00-2:30 visit to Glitch
3:00-4:30 Keller 1-250 Python: conditional expressions.
Wednesday
9:00-11:001-250 Keller Python: lists
11:00-12:003-125 Keller Talk by Prof. Dan Keefe
12:00-1:30 Keller 4-204C lunch with REU students
1:30-4:30 scribbler robots. See instructions and examples
Thursday
9:00-10:151-250 Keller Python, scribbler competition
10:300-11:45Walter VR demos
12:00-1:00 lunch
1:00-1:30Keller robotics lab of Prof. Isler
1:30-4:30 Keller 1-250 Python: dictionaries and strings.
Try cyphering this text from William Shakespeare
Friday
9:00-12:00Keller 1-250 Python.
12:00-1:30 Keller 4-204C lunch
1:30-3:30 finish projects
3:30-4:30 Keller 2-260 Celebration with parents and friends

Contact

Professor Maria Gini
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
4-192 Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
email: gini@cs.umn.edu
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