CODE-at-TACC / summer-2015

Materials for the Summer 2015 CODE@TACC workshop

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CODE@TACC: Real-World Raspberry Pi

Texas Advanced Computing Center

July 13-July 24

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This is the online material for TACC's summer high school program "CODE@TACC" in which students will build a Linux computer then learn how to connect it to the world and create their own inventions.

CODE@TACC Team

Mariel Robles
Rosalia Gomez
John Fonner
James Carson
Greg Zynda
Matt Vaughn
Hadley Vaughn
Joon Yee Chuah
Cyrus Proctor
David Carver
Makeda Easter

Day 1: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Time	Topic
9:00 - 9:45	Welcome and team building
9:45 - 10:15	Tour of TACC's Stampede Supercomputer
10:15 - 10:45	Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:15	Introducing the Linux desktop
11:15 - 11:20	Questions
11:20 - 12:00	Welcome to the Linux command line
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch, Questions, and Challenges
1:00 - 1:30	Welcome to the Linux command line
1:30 - 2:00	STEM Program Survey
2:00 - 2:15	Questions
2:15 - 2:30	Break
2:30 - 3:00	Getting started with Python
3:00 - 3:45	Creating a professional online presence
3:45 - 4:00	Questions and closing activities

Day 2: Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi

Time	Topic
9:00 - 10:00	Building a simple programmable LED
10:00 - 10:30	Make your light blink using Python
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Add a pushbutton switch to your circuit
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch, Questions, and Challenges
1:00 - 3:45	Sewable Electronics
3:45 - 4:00	Questions and closing activities

Day 3: Networked Computing

Time	Topic
9:00 - 9:30	Parallel Computing Introduction
9:30 - 10:45	Simple Graphics
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Simple Animation
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch, Questions, and Challenges
1:00 - 2:00	Message Passing and Distributed Graphics
2:00 - 2:15	Questions
2:15 - 2:30	Break
2:30 - 3:45	Running the Green Graph 500 Benchmark
3:45 - 4:00	Questions and closing activities

Day 4

Time	Topic
All Day	Visit and explore the TACC Vislab

Day 5

Time	Topic
All Day	Visit and explore the TACC Vislab; UT WEP Tour

Day 6

Time	Topic
All Day	Learn the results of the Graph500 benchmark; Depart for field trip

Day 7

Time	Topic
All Day	Raspberry Pi Robotics

Day 8

Time	Topic
All Day	Visit Hill Country Science Museum

Day 9

Time	Topic
All Day	Raspberry Pi Robotics Continued