CSP YouScience Certification Preparation 

 Computers

• Students should be able to state the definition for a Computer...just like we do in class - Look at your definition of a computer in your notes!! (Input, Storage, Process and Output).   
  • Students should be able to determine when an object does or does not act like a computer.
  • Students should be able to determine which computer hardware is Input (mouse, keyboard), and which is Output (monitor, printer, projector)   
• Students should know what the major components of a computer are and know what they do (eg. See Class Flowchart!). Remember, you built a computer for a client. Click Here.
• Students should be able to count in Binary and understand what it repesents. Click Here.
• State and Explain the Problem Solving Process Steps. Click Here.
  •  Top Down Design  Click Here.
• What is an Algorithm (Looking at #4) ? Click Here.
• State and Explain Sorting (film capsules).  Click Here.

Binary

• Students should be able to count in Binary and understand what it repesents. 
• Students should understand file sizes (one bit  -> petra).     
• Compression: 
  • Lossy vs. Lossless

Programming

• Students should know Programming terms and how they function.
  
  • Programming Vocabulary: Variables, Values, Number, Strings, Operators, Expression, Evaluate  
  • Operators
    •  ||  &&  ==  NOT
  • Conditionals ( & Boolean)
  • Iteration: Forever Loop / While Loop
  • Functions (is an Abstraction - Simplifying Code!)
  • Integer
  • Double Float
  • Top Down Design
  • Debugging - searching for  errors in a program.
  • Types of Errors
  • Syntax Error 
  • Run Time Error  (divide by zero - Crash)
  • Logic Error 
•  Note: Students will be presented with a simple generic program and will need to select the (multiple choice) outcome of the progam.

AI & Machine Learning

• What was the point of playing the Turing Test ?  Click Here.
• Define/Compare Machine Learning AI  to   true AI (Generative). Click Here.

 Internet

• State, draw and Explain the entire process (exactly like class). Click Here.
• Compression: Lossy vs. Lossless.  Click Here. 
• HTTPS   Click Here.

Intellectual Property: Copyright / Trademark / Creative Commons / Public Domain  

• What is the appropriate use of someone else's intellectual property? (Unless it is being given to you to use...you need to pay the owner!)   
• What is the difference between Copyright, Trademark,   Common Common and Public Domain?  Click Here.

 Also:

• What is the Digital Divide?
• What are some Good and Bad effects of Social Media?