Code and Ciphers and very interesting topics to discuss in a Computer Science.\u00a0 There are many ciphers that can be used as Computer Science assignments.\u00a0 I use Ciphers and Codes as a curricular thread throughout my AP A CS class to provide students with relevant reasons to learn more about Computer Science.\u00a0\u00a0 Ciphers and Codes have been around for a very long time and can be seen throughout history.<\/p>\n
A very good book about Ciphers and Codes is “The Code Book<\/a>” by Simon Singh.\u00a0 Mike Scott, UT CS faculty member, discussed this book at the 2010 First Bytes Camp for CS Teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n I made an earlier post called Ciphers and Codes – Vol. I and provided some slides<\/a>, a lab, and a lesson plan<\/a>.\u00a0 I include in the lesson plan a reference to a National Treasure special edition DVD<\/a> that has a short video about Codes that has commentary by\u00a0 Simon Singh.\u00a0 It is a very good video to show students as it has some great cipher information although it can be a bit dull in a spot or two.<\/p>\n Timing out the cipher lessons in your class to correspond with the Social Studies classes is a great idea.\u00a0 For example, find out when they are going to talk about the Zimmerman Telegram in U.S. History and teach a related Cipher lesson at the same time.\u00a0 Everybody wins!<\/p>\n Cross-curricular projects work great to show students what they can do with Computer Skills and to provide relevance for why they need the skills.\u00a0 These projects also provide a nice context for teaching Computer Science concepts.\u00a0 Students tend to get a bit more excited about what they are learning if they realize what they will eventually do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Code and Ciphers and very interesting topics to discuss in a Computer Science.\u00a0 There are many ciphers that can be used as Computer Science assignments.\u00a0 I use Ciphers and Codes as a curricular thread throughout my AP A CS class to provide students with relevant reasons to learn more about Computer Science.\u00a0\u00a0 Ciphers and Codes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,32,20,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}