Welcome to INQ 241! Over the course of this semester, we are going to go on a journey exploring how to speak the language of computers. Our focus this semester will be how we can use computers and programming to modify the media we use most in this world: images, music, and movies.
If anyone ever tells you there's no such thing as fun and games in CS, feel free to point them to this activity. There is a wonderful game called LightBot, which introduces a lot of programming topics. For today, we are going to play several levels from this game, and attempt to connect it back to our main subject matter.
You will also be doing a fair amount of programming this semester, using a custom built project called blockly. While you will be learning Javascript, You will mostly be writing the code using a visual, block stacking type of language. I will demonstrate how that works today, so you can be prepared for our next class on Tuesday.