CSP Certification Prep

CSP YouScience Certification Preparation

Note: Teachers, In your Account, you can change your role from Proctor (administer a test), to Learner (take a test). In order to set up a test for your students, you must be in the Proctor mode.

Computers

Students should be able to state the definition for a Computer...just like we do in class - Look at your definition of a computer in your notes!! (Input, Storage, Process and Output). Click Here
- Students should be able to determine when an object does or does not act like a computer.
- Students should be able to determine which computer hardware is Input (mouse, keyboard), and which is Output (monitor, printer, projector)
Students should know what the major components of a computer are and know what they do (eg. See Class Flowchart!). Remember, you built a computer for a client. Click Here.
State and Explain the Problem Solving Process Steps. Click Here.
- Top Down Design Click Here.
- What is an Algorithm (Look at #2) ? Click Here.
State and Explain Sorting (film capsules). Click Here.

Binary

Students should be able to count in Binary and understand what it repesents. Click Here.
Students should understand file sizes, from a bit to a petrabyte). Click Here.
Compression:
- Lossy vs. Lossless

Programming

Students should know Programming terms and how they function.
- Programming Vocabulary: Variables, Values, Number, Strings, Operators, Expression, Evaluate
- Operators
  - || && == NOT
- Conditionals ( & Boolean)
- Iteration: Forever Loop / While Loop
- Functions (is a type of Abstraction - Simplifying Code!)
- Additional Programming Vocabulary Terms
Note: Students will be presented with a simple generic program and will need to select the (multiple choice) outcome of the progam.

AI & Machine Learning

What was the point of playing the Turing Test ? Click Here.
Define/Compare Machine Learning AI to true AI (Generative). Click Here.

Internet

Students should be able to place the HTML tags that are the basis of all web pages in the order in which the appear. Click Here.
State, draw and Explain the entire process (exactly like class). Click Here.
Packets Click Here
HTTPS Click Here.

Intellectual Property: Copyright / Trademark / Creative Commons / Public Domain

What is the difference between Copyright, Trademark, Common Common and Public Domain? Click Here.

Also:

What is the Digital Divide?
What are some Good and Bad effects of Social Media?