Resources
CS Matters Curriculum with Updates for 2020

0. Introduction
Resources     Assessments

• 0 - 1. How Does Technology Impact Your Life?

• 0 - 2. Computing for the Next Generation

• 0 - 3. Intelligent Paper

1. Your Virtual World
Resources     Assessments

• 1 - 1. Into the Darkness: A World Without Digital Communication (3 sessions)

• 1 - 2. Into the Light: How Computers and the Internet Enhance Innovation (3 sessions)

• 1 - 3. Exploring Innovations(2 sessions)

• 1 - 4. It's Just Bits (2 sessions)

• 1 - 5. How Innovation Affects Our Lives

• 1 - 6. A Problem Solving Process that Scales

• 1 - 7. Unit 1 Assessment

• 1 - 8. The Basics of Research and Technical Writing (2 sessions)

• 1 - 9a. exploring_a_computing_innovation.pdf (2 sessions)

2. Developing Programming Tools
Resources     Assessments

• 2 - 1. Programming Introduction and Motivation

• 2 - 2. Using Python and PyCharm

• 2 - 3. Algorithms: Basics

• 2 - 4. Algorithms: Pseudocode

• 2 - 5. Reading Python Code and Debugging (2 sessions)

• 2 - 6. Types and Evaluation

• 2 - 7. Creating and Assigning Variables

• 2 - 8. Comparison, Logical Operators, and Conditional Execution

• 2 - 9. Nested and Chained Conditional Statements

• 2 - 10. Iteration: For Loops

• 2 - 11. Iteration: While Loops

• 2 - 12. Functions: Parameters and Return Values

• 2 - 13. Algorithms: Layers of Abstraction

• 2 - 14. Functions: Scope and Abstraction (2 sessions)

• 2 - 15. Strings: Traversing, Slicing, and Parsing (2 sessions)

• 2 - 16. Lists: Creation, Traversal, Insertion, and Removal (2 sessions)

• 2 - 17. Unit Assessment (3 sessions)

3. Information and the Internet
Resources     Assessments

• 3 - 1. The Internet: Basics of Information Transmission

• 3 - 2. The Internet: Present and Future

• 3 - 3. How the Internet Works: Routing

• 3 - 4. How the Internet Works: Domain Name System

• 3 - 5. How the Internet Works: DNS Activity (2 sessions)

• 3 - 6. Search Engines: Finding Information

• 3 - 7. Search Engines: Page Rank and Retrieval (2 sessions)

• Optional: 3 - 8. Basic Statistics with Excel

• 3-9a_exploring_a_computing_innovation.pdf (3 sessions)

• 3 - 10. Cybersecurity: Attacks, Protection, and Impact

• 3 - 11. Cryptography: Symmetric Encryption

• 3 - 12. Cryptography: Public Key Encryption, Certificate Authorities, and Open Standards (2 sessions)

• 3 - 13. Cybersecurity: Malicious Code, Identity Theft, and Remedies

• 3 - 14. Data on the Internet 

4. Data Acquisition
Resources     Assessments

• 4 - 1. Data Acquisition and Analysis (2 sessions)

• 4 - 2. What are Models and Simulations?

• 4 - 3. Using Data and Simulations

• 4 - 4. File Input and Output using Python (2 sessions)

• 4 - 5. Data Collection, Analysis, and Simulation (2 sessions)

• 4 - 6_exploring_a_computing_innovation.pdf ( 2 sessions)

• 4 - 7. Hypothesis Testing with Simulations in NetLogo (3 sessions)

• 4 - 8. Unit 4 Assessment

5. Data Manipulation
Resources     Assessments

• 5 - 1a. manipulating_large_data_sets.pdf (2 sessions)

• 5 - 2. Searching (2 sessions)

• 5 - 3. Sorting (3 sessions)

• 5 - 4. Comparing Algorithms (2 sessions)

• 5 - 5. Advanced Algorithms (2 sessions)

• 5 - 6. Create Performance Task Partial Practice (3 sessions)

6. Data Visualization
Resources     Assessments

• 6 - 1a. data_visualization_with_EarSketch.pdf (5 sessions)

• 6 - 2a. optional_data_vizualization_with_RawGraphs.pdf (2 sessions)

• 6 - 3. Dataquest (15 sessions)

• 6 - 4. Diversity Makes For Better Solutions (2 sessions) 

Create Performance Task
Resources     Assessments

• C2_Create_perfomance_task.pdf (15 sessions)

Useful Resources

• College Board AP CSP Website

• AP CSP Course and Exam Description PDF

• Computer Lab Setup and Class Resources PDF

• Physical Resources by Unit

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