IEEE College of Technology MAES SE 2020 - Coding Fun
- 1. Coding Fun? Presented by IEEE at University of Houston College of Technology Jennifer Foo & Zaki Mir
- 2. Table of Contents Innovation and STEM 02 More Resources 04 Coding Fun 03 We would see how coding is fun and create a real life application of code Who/What is IEEE? 01
- 4. IEEE (Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers TryEngineering Summer Institute Power by IEEE • The TryEngineering has two-week on-campus engineering camp for high school students at 3 premier universities across the United States. • Website includes resources to encourage students 4-11 to explore STEM. Such as: : • Edabit • Different Coding Languages, Coding Basics, and gives students projects to practice their newly found skills. • Circuit Construction Kit • An Experiment with an electronics kit! Design and Build your own circuits. Discover if everyday objects are conductors or insulators. tryengineering.org/students/ MORE
- 6. We want young minds like yours to advance technology. Create innovated inventions that can help society. STEM is not just Engineering but all relations to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Innovation and STEM
- 8. ● Computer programming is the process of designing and building an executable computer program to accomplish a specific computing result or to perform a specific task. Coding is Fun inputs Performs calculation outputs
- 9. Writing code is problem-solving through instruction. Think about the autonomous car for an example. when it is trying to park it must know the distance from its surroundings at all time. It would need to know and adjust the speed it should move in order to safely and correctly park itself. Otherwise, the other divers would be angry at the car. Writing Codes is fun. Fun!? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
- 10. TINKERCAD is a free online collection of software tools that help people to create 3D design, simulation, and Arduino programming. Platform: TINKERCAD
- 11. Lets Design! caution safe stop 1. We are using Arduino UNO microcontroller and HC-SR04 ultrasonic ranging sensors. 2. We are showing our results through LEDs. 3. The car could be in three mood: safe, caution, and stop.
- 12. Lets Code! We will have inputs from the ultrasonic sensor Process the distance from the sensor and use it to determine, what state the car is? use the LEDs to show the state the car is. /*Flow charts are easy way to communicate the relationship of the functions and the progress of the code*/
- 13. long readUltrasonicDistance(int triggerPin, int echoPin) { pinMode(triggerPin, OUTPUT); // Clear the trigger digitalWrite(triggerPin, LOW); delayMicroseconds(2); // Sets the trigger pin to HIGH state for 10 microseconds digitalWrite(triggerPin, HIGH); delayMicroseconds(10); digitalWrite(triggerPin, LOW); pinMode(echoPin, INPUT); // Reads the echo pin, and returns the sound wave travel time in microseconds return pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH); } Input logic: • Specify when to create a pulse • How long should it wait to distinguish between the trigger and echo pulse • Other specifications and redundancies. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
- 14. If the distance is less than 25 all LEDs are on (stop) If the distance is less than 50 then LED 2 & 3 will be on (Caution) If distance is greater than 50 then LED 2 will be on (safe) If distance is not received than all LEDs will be off (ERROR) Logical calculation: • Block codes are used to make the function of the code looks easy for eyes. • Most of the code starts as pseudo-code. Where the coder write out functions and the application in plain English. • This helps to keep track of the functions and its relations with other function and variables. Pop-Quiz: what if the distance is negative such as (-26) how many LEDs would be on? The answer is all the LEDs will be on
- 15. ● The output of the logic unit would not be the final values we are looking for, but they would be used to calculate the action the car’s computer should take. ● Usually multiple teams work together to complete a project. ● We can scall this system and combine multiple of this systems to gather the data and produce an algorithm to make sure the can park safely. Output logics:
- 16. ● Coding is writing sets of instructions for problem solving using computers. ● Complicated problems could be divided up into small problems that could be solved easily and quickly. ● Understanding the problem is the first step. Designing a solution and creating flow chart helps and creates a guidance to approach a solution. ● Writing pseudo-code helps understand the functions of the code. Writing the real code and testing, and debugging the code helps get a better solution to the problem. ● Redundancies are very important to be safe from the unexpected errors. ● Real world implementation of the code is the actual solution to the complicated problem. Summary:
- 18. ● Khan Academy Hour of Code teaches the basics of programming concepts ● Courses on basics of computer drawing, web page development, and database. Khan Academy
- 19. • Uses animation to teach programming • Can program interactive stories, games, and animations • A project of Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT media lab. Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/)
Editor's Notes
- #5: (Different Coding Languages, teaches Coding basics, and gives students projects to practice their newly found skills)
- #8: Thanks Jenny. Hi everyone
- #9: Coding is just problem solving Think about autonomous cars. They have to find their path with out colliding with any object. So engineeres code programs to put sets of instruction to make sure that the car performs the way a car should . It drives in the rode not in the walk-way.
- #10: We are going to see some practical small scall implementation of coding. We will see how big problems could be approached
- #11: Its good to make simulation of product before buying and building the circuit from scratch It helps to grasp the concept and the list of material you might need to buy. Helps with budgets.