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Girls Stem Cohort x Computer Science

Chris Jones | Please take a seat anywhere

Welcome

Hi - I’m Chris Jones

Today’s Goals

  • Introduce Arlington Tech Computer Science
  • Learn a bit about programming
  • Explore how computers “see”
  • Have some fun!

Computer Vision

When might we want our computers to have vision?

Has anyone ever ridden in a Tesla?

Tesla HUD

Let’s build a computer vision app

Web Development - Psychology Research

Georgetown University Research Study

  • I’m passionate about creativity
  • You have an opportunity to participate in a research study about creativity in STEM

The Study

  • Two FNIRS scans - beginning and end of the year
  • Here at ACC
  • Compensation! $20/session
FNIRS

Test Answers

IT Crowd - The Internet

Client-Server Model

Client-Server Model

“The Cloud” is just a bunch of data centers

How did people communicate before the internet?

Runners

Pigeons

Horse Messengers

Telegraph - Connected Baltimore and DC in 1844

First transatlantic telegraph - 1858

Height of telegraph - late 1800’s

Note the instructions in small print: “Sender of the message should order it repeated”.

Phones and switchboards

The Internet

IP Addresses

Going online

The Dialup Sound

Let’s play with the internet

Terminal Walk-through

Some terminal commands to try:

  • curl ascii.live/can-you-hear-me
  • curl parrot.live
  • ipconfig getifaddr en0
  • curl ipecho.net/plain
  • traceroute google.com
  • ping google.com
  • cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | less
  • cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep 03/09
  • cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.birthday | grep 03/09
  • cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep 03/09