====== Week 3: AP Principles Course ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Learn about the new AP Principles Course
  * Learn about computational thinking


===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

Required Readings
  * [[http://csprinciples.cs.washington.edu/sevenbigideas.html|Seven Big Ideas of Computer Science]]
  * [[http://csprinciples.cs.washington.edu/sixpractices.html|Six Computational Thinking Practices]]
  * [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf|Computational Thinking]]
 
===== Topics =====

  * What are the Seven Big Ideas for AP CS Principles Course?
  * What is Computational Thinking?
  
===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Using Objects
  * Downloads and demos:
    * LightBot 2.0 (http://armorgames.com/play/6061/light-bot-20)
    * Processing (http://www.processing.org)