Computer Science at St. Robert is offered in grades 10, 11, 12. Students in grade 9 can take ICS2O1 (grade 10 Computer Science) as an elective. Elective or Compulsory Credit? The push is starting across the world to have students have to take computer science. Read the article link here about what some universities in the US are doing. Compulsory?
Which Languages Should you Learn? Here is an article that speaks about which languages are most commonly used by professional programmers.
Stanford and Ipads and Apps In another interesting article Stanford University is creating a generation of students who are making apps. Even students who can't get into the course at Stanford are going to itunes to download the classes. Read the article.
Wanna go to MIT? You can be an MIT student by taking free online courses. The first one started March 5 2012. Here is a link that explains more about it.
Why take computer science? Check out this article on IT jobs from the Toronto Stars Business Section. Dana Flavelle is the reporter.
Even in Britain You Say? The need for qualified IT professionals is not just affecting us here in the GTA. Read the article linked below and see that the UK is also trying new tactics to encourage students like you to go into the Information Technology field. Britain's IT Needs.
Robotics Team (FRC Team 4001) Thanks to student Kelvin Lin and teacher Mr. Devine the rookie robotics team as a fun and informative flash website. Go to the website and see what we have been doing this build season and even before that. Buy a t-shirt or a button or a wristband to help support our team. Tell your friends about the site. We want lots of people to know about it. Go to Retro Rams.
Is Programming Important to Learn? Is there a need to teach Computer programming at the high school and post-secondary levels. The answer is yes! A lot of parents think their children are computer wizards because "They are always on the computer" and " They know more than me" but most of the time what they know is not all that useful eg. how to use facebook or a browser and a little photoshop. I am not the only one who thinks this. The link below talks about a new cheap computer called Raspberry Pi but one of the main reasons for this machine is to encourage students to learn to program. Raspberry Pi
ICS2O1 In grade 10 students use Adobe Flash (ActionScript 2.0) to create games. The games can be simple dragging and dropping of symbols around the screen to complicated games involving characters that move, jump, go in different directions etc. In fact, some of students last year used characters in their final programs from a clothing company this was started by St. Robert grads. The former students put some of the games on their blog and ran a contest where visitors could play the games and vote on which one they liked the best. At the end several students won prizes contributed by CryWolf clothing for their efforts. Programming in Flash is just one of the things we
do in grade 10. Students also work with Excel, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, InDesign, and Word.
ICS3U1 ICS3U1 is our largest group of students with 3 large sections of more than 25 students each. We program in Visual Basic 6 in grade 11. It is an extremely easy language to learn to use. It allows the students to create good looking windows programs in a very short period of time. The class also touches on PowerPoint, PhotoShop and other software relevant to high school students.
ICS4U1 The grade 12 classes (ICS4U1) learn to program in java using the NetBeans IDE. The grade 11 course is a prerequisite for this class. Even in grade 12 we will do some PowerPoint and PhotoShop to have a little break from coding. Many Object Oriented Programming concepts are taught and/or touched upon in ICS4U1. |
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