Overview

Every year, the Grinnell Science Project (GSP) invites selected incoming Grinnell students to arrive early and do some extra science. An important part of the GSP experience is a two-day lab in one of the sciences.

These are some of the resources for the 2015 GSP Lab in Computer Science (CS), run by Samuel A. Rebelsky. You will find that some parts are carefully described and others are more loosely described. You will find that some parts are very scripted and others are very open. The variety of styles is (mostly) intentional.

Approximate Schedule

These times and topics are intended to serve as a rough guide. Historical evidence suggests that I rarely estimate times correctly.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015 (1:00-3:30 p.m.)

• Introductions (1:00-1:10)
• What is CS? (1:10-1:30)
• Error Detection and Correction (1:30-2:00)
• Binary Representation (2:00-2:30)
• Sorting (2:30-3:00)
• Setting Up the "Lab Equipment" (3:00-3:30)

Wednesday, 19 August 2015 (1:30-4:00 p.m.)

• Representing Web Pages (1:30-2:00 p.m.)
• Building Your Own Web Pages (2:00-2:30 p.m.)
• Scripting the Web (2:30-3:00 p.m.)
• Open Work Time and Demos (3:00-3:30 p.m.)
• Processing (3:30-4:00 p.m.)

Other Resources

• http://www.w3schools.com/css/ W3Schools CSS Tutorial. A good place to explore some aspects of CSS.
• http://sketchpad.cc/ Sketchpad. A place to develop programs in the Processing Programming Language.
• https://processing.org/ Processing.org. More information on the Processing Programming Language.