Computer Science

Is this a normal science expo but you want to use computers?

 

I like your thoughts on using computer parts, but don't get too ambitious. I don't think having random computer parts will be of much use, unless those parts can be put into a computer to be used (i.e. PCI cards, network cards, RAM, etc.).

What about having one computer talk with another through a basic network? This would involve two computers, and when one computer downloads something from the internet it tells the other computer and sends the files to it, and then runs it or something.

Again, think simple, and then as you progresses it can become more advanced.
Its better to do a simple thing really well, vs a hard thing really crappy.

 

As a former science teacher it sounds like you have a project due over the break. My suggestion is to KISS the project (keep it simple stupid) thus enabling you not to tack on more than you can handle. Here are some suggestions

1. Studies of storage/retrieval techniques for computer systems

2. Handling of data transfer between 1/0 devices

3. Data manipulation and information management techniques and procedures

4. Applications in education using the computer as an education tool

5. Compiler design

6. Statistics and random number problems

7. Simulation of nonscience areas e.g. history, life or other planets

8. A programmable processing unit design, function and operation

9. Developing a video game

10. Pascal programming tools

11. Developing a program to write a new custom program

12. Use of computers in managing industrial processes

13.Using computers to help people do what they want to do





http://blogs.ucls.uchicago.edu/cswmh/2007/09/18/how-to-succeed-in-6th-grade-without-really-trying/

One more thing, please check your spelling and grammar when you write on-line, it helps your writing and spelling plus makes your appeal for help more attractive.......good luck.

I hope these suggestions helped.

 

The statistics idea could be interesting. You could create mechanical computer. This would consist of a slanted peg board (like Plinko on the Price is Right). You can demonstrate visually how a normal distribution occurs by dropping chips or marbles down the peg board. You can also explain how, at the first level of the peg board, when a chip is dropped it only has two possible places to travel and there would be a 50/50 chance that it would fall to the left or right of the peg (assuming that the peg board is built perfectly). Then, you can explain the probabilities at each consecutive level.

Eg. (I had to use the periods to maintain the formating).

........1
.......1 1
......1 2 1
.....1 3 3 1

If this is interesting to you, you can do a search on the web for Pascal's Triangle.

Cheers,

 

Perhaps designing and implementing a spell checker might be a project that would be interesting as well as providing benefit to you on other levels.

 

Yeah, that's kinda unnecessary.

Kid, what's the deal? What do you want to do? Don't lean on us to think for you. What is it you are thinking?

 

I think you'll find that the world at large won't cut you any slack in this regard. No reason not to get accustomed to that now. Your posts to this thread are far, far below the literacy I'd expect from a sixth grader, and I'm not the only one in this thread to have pointed it out.

Not only is your lack of attention to your posts a bit insulting to the rest of us, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice. It's very difficult to take you seriously if you don't show even a small degree of respect for yourself and what you have to say.

I'm sure there are plenty of other readers who reacted the same way I did, but were "too polite" to mention it and instead chose to just ignore the thread entirely. Is that really what you want?

Edit: Additionally, your first three posts to this thread are from three separate occasions spanning almost eight hours. Your atrocious grammar and spelling are clearly not a lapse of focus in a single case of being rushed. Think it through.

 

What about a graphical comparison of different sorting algorithms? Between say, insertion sort, bubble sort, merge sort, quick sort and heap sort? This sort of stuff is at the heart of computer science, and a good illustration of what the field is all about.

You can test this out by hand using a deck of cards (or only on 1 suite=13 cards, just to keep it simple). You can even call it 'what is the most efficient way to sort a deck of cards' ?