Resouces from AP Workshop Summer 2005

e-mail: carter(at)e-Lcds.org
home page http://www.e-lcds.org/fac/carter/
Java Links for teachers http://www.e-lcds.org/fac/carter/JavaResources.htm
Projects for teaching different concepts from Roger Frank http://www.rfrank.net/cslabs/cslabs.htm

The Institute for Computing Education's collaborative website is at
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/
The slides from Dr. Mark Guzdial's presentation are here:
IntroToMediaComp-ICE@GT-July05.ppt
Take a practice AP Exam (A or AB) from our Database of Questions
http://manatee.cc.gt.atl.ga.us:8080/apExam/
Barb Ericson's e-mail ericson (at) cc.gatech.edu

National association for computer science teachers
The home page is at http://csta.acm.org/

Alice is a free 3D animation package that can be downloaded from
http://www.alice.org
You can find sample worlds created by students at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt/172

LEGO Mindstorms, Robotics Invention System. A kit cost about $200.00 and comes with
2 motors, sensors, and lego parts and instructions on how to build sample robots.

Home page: http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/default.asp
For Education page: http://www.lego.com/eng/education/mindstorms/default.asp
A set of instructions for building a simple robot are at
http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/education/teachertraining/tankbotbldginstr.pdf
You can program these robots in Java using lejos (the Java Operating System)
lejos tutorial http://lejos.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
For more information on using Java see http://java.sun.com/features/2002/05/robot.html

The Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll and Movie from Nova: The KGB, The Computer and Me

College Board Endorsed AP July 18-22nd 2005 last edited on 30 January 2006 at 10:45 am by user-11216ng.dsl.mindspring.com