Reflections on workshops
Keynote 1 - Joe Finney Lancaster Uni - programmed original Micro:Bit
0.5 % of all chips produced in world go into computers.
Compare Blocks to Java Script-also look out for Text to Scratch (Teacher from York)
Mbit Open Source code https://github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-docs
KS5 Examples for Assembler / Compiler / Scheduler (slide coming to CAS NE)
1) Finite State Machines - Jim Green, Consett Academy
KS3 - 5 Using machines that abstract away from a computer but can develop concepts
Example 1 - Customer ordering fruits with different rules on wearing a hat or scarf
Example 2 - Turing Machine to add up numbers just by following a series of rules (presented as sweets (B+W) and different coloured lollies
http://old.computingatschool.org.uk/tft/05-160525/0400Computing_Without_Computers_Teacher_Notes.pdf
http://www.cs4fn.org/magazine/cs4fnissue14.pdf
2) Object Orientated Workshop - Jeanette Patterson Kings Priory School / CAS NE
KS5 (some KS4) quick overview of the main theory concepts - useful for reinforcing area that is not a strong point.
Keynote 2 Marcus Kaiser - Newc Uni - Neuroinformatics
https://www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/neuroinformaticsuk/
Lots of links in Orange Book
3) Network Modelling - Duncan Maidens (City of Birmingham Uni / CAS Midlands)
KS4 - KS5 (some KS3)
New Cisco Acadmey free courses and packet tracing software
https://www.netacad.com/web/uk/home/-/blogs/computing-for-schools-course/
https://www.netacad.com/
4) Graph Theory - Abstraction - Laura Fox Kings Priory School
Knights Tours / London Guide / City of London Tube map (video) / Creating Nodes
Looking at Facebook recommend links / Google Page rank / https://oracleofbacon.org/
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