MATHmania Robotics

CONTEST with a PRIZE!! There is a great coding puzzle event every year at Christmas time at https://adventofcode.com/2020 There are usually a couple of easier puzzles at the beginning. How many can you solve this year? (Last year I finished 2. The goal this year is at least one more.) There are 50 puzzles so plenty to do for those of you who have LOTS of time. I don't, but I enjoy doing a few puzzles. I started a leaderboard, just for us. There are thousands playing ...on the big leaderboard, but with just a few of us...you could end up at the top of our leaderboard. It would be fun to see who is playing! Click Leaderboard - Private Leaderboard - and enter 747404-c074aaaa as our code. Good luck! $15 Dairy Queen gift card for the player at the top of our leaderboard on January 2 at 10:00 pm Pacific Time See more

Quick tip for python or javascript, etc. I need to comment out a whole section. What do I do (faster than putting # or // at the beginning of every line)? Highlight the block of code. Ctrl - / (or mac command - /) Love finding this shortcuts! This one is similar to indenting or un-indenting a block of code. Ctrl - tab

Dr Haggard's office is closed, so this is what he is doing with his many hours of free time. Not done yet but getting close after hundreds of iterations, starting in summer 2019.

Since they reopened the beaches, we (one of our students,Carl, and family) went to Dana Cove for Mother's Day and hiked to the caves. I highly recommend bringing kids there during low tide if they can handle a 1.5 mile round trip rocky hike with crashing waves nearby. It's funner than Disneyland, and doesn't cost a thing! Carl took a sample of sea water home and examined it under our Koolertron Microscope (which I also recommend). Here are some videos from the microscope:

I have finished games 1-6, and onto the last one today, Tetris. Interesting thing I learned. Did you know each of the shapes in the game are one of 7 tetraminoes? Fun new word, makes sense, a shape with 4 segments. Memory, Whack a Mole, Connect Four, Snake, Space Invaders, Frogger. One more!

What are you building? Here is a 3D printed Nerf gun from Carl in southern California. He used Solid Works.

7 game apps during spring break? Sounds like a fun challenge. I'm following a tutorial through free code camp. So far so good. Here is my first completed game, MEMORY. Just bare bones, simple styling. I'm going to crank them out and then if there is one that I really like, I can go back and make it look snazzy. How about you? What are you creating this week? code? robotics? other maker projects? Let us see your genius at work!

Great projects going on during this "at home" time!

#100DaysOfCode. Day 1 (yesterday). I finished my Catch That Banana base game on AppLab. Day 2. I started Karissa's Journal App on AppLab. My goal is to finish some of my many started projects. https://studio.code.org/proje/applab/jug06SeMK99-q1C79WyE0Q .....Mrs. H.....

Happy New Year 2020! I am joining the #100DaysOfCode Challenge. Anyone want to join in? It doesn't matter your level. Just code every day and post here. (Or you can look up the official rules, but we are just informally running the challenge here.) You can work on any projects you want or you can work through a course, like code.org Accelerated Course or Khan Academy Intro to JavaScript or get started with Python. But work every day on some code. We should probably do this again in the summer! We'll see how it goes.