Collaborative Activities

There are two categories of collaborative activities that connect to this chapter. The first focuses on speculative design work around web search. The second set extends student work with HTML and CSS into the hypertext creative media space.

Section Contents¶

• Code in Context, Computing & the Liberal Arts
• How to Interact With This Book
• Course Overview
  • Background
  • Course Schedule
  • Course Activities
  • How Grading Works
  • Preparing for Class Meetings
• Binary Number Systems & Encoding Schema
  • Physical, Logical & Conceptual Objects
  • Binary Number Systems
  • Encoding Schema
  • Representing Other Information in Binary
  • File Formats
  • Application Questions
  • Collaborative Problem Solving
• How Computers Work (Part 1): Computer Hardware & Architecture
  • Von Neumann Architecture
  • ALU & Memory
  • CPU & the Fetch-Execute Cycle
  • Assembly Language
  • Putting It All Together
  • Application Questions
  • Scenarios
    • Scenario #1: ALU & Memory
    • Scenaroi #2: ALU & Memory
    • Scenario #3: Assembly Language, the CPU & the Fetch-Execute Cycle
• How Computers Work (Part 2): Operating Systems & Interfaces
  • Operating Systems
  • The Command Line Interface
    • Tutorial: Working at the Command Line
    • Tutorial: Opening Your Shell
    • Tutorial: Terminal Wayfinding
    • Tutorial: Working in the Terminal
    • Putting It All Together
  • Application Questions
  • Collaborative Activities
• Computer Networks & the Internet
  • Computer Networks
  • The Internet
    • Additional Resources
  • Application Questions
  • Interactive Activities
    • Packet Switching Network Relay
    • I Think Therefore ICANN (A Roleplaying Game About Domain Names)
• The World Wide Web
  • The World Wide Web
  • Tutorial: Building Content For the Web
    • Your First Web Page!
    • Adding Content
    • Additional Pages
    • Linking Pages
    • Adding Images
    • Style & Formatting
    • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Application
  • Additional Resources
  • Collaborative Activities
    • Web Search Activites
    • Hypertext Activities
• Programming Fundamentals in Python: Variables, Data Types & Operators
  • Python in Spyder
  • Python in Jupyter Notebooks
  • Figuring Out Your IDE Workflow
  • Your First Program
    • Variables & Assignment Operators
    • Arithmetic Operators
    • Concatenation
    • Input & Output (I/O)
    • Converting Data Types
  • Comparison Operators
    • More Advanced Comparisons
  • Application
  • Collaborative Activities
    • Python Activities
    • Microbit Activities
• Data Structures in Python
  • Index/Indexing and Counting in Python
  • Strings
  • Lists
    • Other Linear Array Structures in Python
  • Dictionaries
  • Putting It All Together
  • Application
  • Activities
    • Python Activities
    • Microbit Activities
• Control Structures in Python
  • Conditional Execution
  • Iteration
    • While Loops
    • For Loops
    • Additional Loop Considerations
  • Putting It All Together
  • Application
  • Collaborative Activities
    • Python Activities
    • Microbit Activities
• Code Reuse & Modularity in Python
  • Functions in Python
    • Built-In Functions
    • Named Functions
      • How Named Functions Work
      • Python Example A
      • Python Example B
      • Python Example C
    • Parameters & Scoping
    • Named Functions Application
    • Putting It All Together
    • Code Reuse & Modularity (aka a quick detour into modules, packages, and libraries)
  • Application
• Structured Data in Python
  • File I/O
    • Opening Files
    • Access Modes
    • open() examples
    • write()
  • Structured Data
    • Delimited Data
    • CSV Files
    • JavaScript Object Notation
  • Pandas
    • Data Structures in Pandas
      • Series
      • DataFrame
    • From Data File to Data Frame
    • Interacting with a DataFrame
    • From DataFrame to Data File
    • Pandas Application Question
  • Application