Using Computers at FIS

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Do your work or
be creative, but get organized.
Read guidelines
for successful computing at FIS.

FIS Computing Classes

FIS offers 5 Computer Science classes:
  • Computer Technology gr 8
    ​Computer Technology Std gr 9
    editing web-pages, multimedia,  
    constructing animations, videos,
    understanding technical details
  • Graphics Programming
    programming graphical displays
    and interactive applications including video games in Java, JavaScript and Basic
  • IB Computer Science (SL & HL)
    a two year course about technical
    details of computer systems and
    constructing programs, databases
    and web-sites
      click to see course descriptions

      click to see grading criteria

IB Computer Science Links

The notes on the resource page were compiled during 25 years as an IB teacher and IB examiner.

    Quick Start for August 2012

  IB Computer Science Resources

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​The flying car makes its perennial return

Google co-founder Larry Page — unveiled the Kitty Hawk Flyer, an ultralight aircraft launching later this year.     ...more...

Future Devices

Google Car Drives Itself
iMoney in your iPhone

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Lots of Social Media Sites

What is SMART?

Latest Tech Ideas

Wonder what's new in computing?
Click an icon and do some reading!

About this Site

Purpose of site  Author: Dave Mulkey

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Raspberry PI Robot

This small robot is powered by a Raspberry Pi microcomputer.  It makes coffee and performs a few other tasks
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Google Glass - augmented reality for the future
Virtual Reality - simulated touch screen

Artificial Intelligence vs Fake News

Roses are red, violets are blue, fake-news-detecting AI is fake news, too
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Bionic Man
Built from standard artificial medical replacement parts, like mechanical legs.  read more
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Galileo micro-computer board
If that's a whole computer, where
is the disk-drive?  read more
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Where do old computers end up?
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3 Simultaneous Lightning Bolts
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.       Franz Grillparzer 
Makey-Makey
Use anything for a keyboard or controller. For example, use bananas as piano keys.
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German rappin' in Klingon
Who else speaks Klingon?
- a father and his baby
- an online translator
- these StarTrek characters
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Tesseract

Cyper Attacks

Hear about 25 huge cyber attacks.
... more info click here ...
This is a VIDEO made from single atoms.  That's not very useful, but it points the way to very high density and high capacity storage devices.