Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Turing Chapters 2 and 4

Chapter 2: The Turing Environment introduces you to how to use the Turing program. Most of it is familiar to anyone who has used a computer before, so I demonstrated it quickly with the computer and projector. Your assignment is to try the programs on page 55, 57 and 58 #3.

Ch. 4: Simple Programs - In the Pickup Folder there is a file waiting for you entitled "Ch4Put_makingNotes.doc." Copy it to your Home Drive, then read through the chapter and fill in the blanks in the file. When you're done, print the file to have a set of notes for the chapter. As you're working through the chapter, be sure to try all the programs given as examples.

After reading the chapter, making the notes and trying the programs, do the exercises at the end of the chapter -- Questions 1-3 are so simple you might want to just read them, but you should certainly write programs for Questions # 4-10.

Once you are finished with the chapter, you can look at the second file in the Pickup Folder, entitled "Ch04_Selftest.doc." It quizzes you on some of the key points in the chapter. Answers are in the table, but they are white-on-white, so if the keyboard shortcut (Control key and the Plus sign on the numeric keypad) doesn't work, highlight everything in the Answer cell and change the format of the text to black.