Experiences Overview

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Level 10

Lab basics

Unit	Experience ID	Next experience ID	Knowledge and skills	Topic area	Classroom time	Study time	Acquired knowledge	Acquired skill
Wiki	W1001	W1001.20	§10.111	Content management systems	20 minutes	10 minutes	understanding of how to use the wiki	ability to successfully navigate the wiki
Community	W1001.20	W1002	§10.112	Discussion forums, Communication & collaboration	20 minutes	30 minutes	understanding how to use a discussion forum	ability to post to a discussion forum, ability to respond in a discussion forum, ability to search a discussion forum
Shell	W1002	W1003	§10.121	SSH clients, Linux, Bash	60 minutes	180 minutes	differentiate between a CLI and GUI, understand files, directories, and their organizational hierarchy, understand processes, understand the client-server model, understand the purpose of a prompt and cursor	ability to append text to an existing file, ability to create new text files, ability to create new, empty files, ability to delete files and directories, ability to move and rename files and directories, ability to successfully determine your location in the file hierarchy, ability to successfully navigate the file hierarchy, ability to suspend and resume processes, ability to terminate processes
Help Me!	W1003		§10.111	SSH clients, Linux, Bash	20 minutes	10 minutes	understand the opportunities available to request help	ability to request help via the opportunities available
Emacs	W1004	W1004.50	§10.121  §10.212	Emacs	45 minutes	240 minutes	understanding that documents are preserved in files, understanding the difference between document files and temporary files	creating a new file, opening an existing file, saving modifications to a file, marking a region of text and cutting, copying, and pasting text, navigating forward and backward through a file by character, word, sentence, and line, navigating to the start and end of the document, searching for text incrementally (forwards and backwards), starting, stopping, and suspending emacs
HTML	W1004.50	W1005	§10.111  §10.112  §10.121  §10.231  §10.651	HTML	30 minutes	30 minutes	understand the purpose of HTML	creating an HTML page using proper syntax
Digital Journal	W1005		§10.111  §10.112  §10.121  §10.651	Reflection	20 minutes	30 minutes	understand the purpose of a digital journal, understand the purpose of reflection	creating a digital journal in the proper format
Source Control	W1006		§10.231	Source control systems	60 minutes	30 minutes	understand the purpose of a source control system	ability to use a source control system to add, delete, and move documents, ability to use a source control system to checkout previous versions, ability to use a source control system to commit changes, ability to view a log of changes
GitHub	W1007.10		§10.231  §10.232	Source control systems	60 minutes	180 minutes	understand the purpose of a source control system when working with multiple users	ability to properly handle merge conflicts, ability to push and pull changes to/from the source control system, ability to use a source control system to merge changes
Merging	W1007.20		§10.232	Source control systems	60 minutes	15 minutes	understand the purpose of using a source control system to merge changes	ability to properly handle merge conflicts, ability to use a source control system to merge changes
Magit	W1007.30		§10.231  §10.232  §10.241	Source control systems	60 minutes	120 minutes	understand the purpose of a source control system when working with multiple users	ability to properly handle merge conflicts, ability to push and pull changes to/from the source control system, ability to use a source control system to merge changes
Merlin Mission Manager	W1008		§10.241	Tools & technologies	60 minutes	180 minutes	understand when and how to use the Merlin Mission Manager	ability to navigate through the hierarchy of missions and challenges, ability to reattempt a mission in the Merlin Mission Manager, ability to use the Merlin Mission Manager to prepare, test, and submit challenges, ability to use the Merlin Mission Manager to accept, prepare and complete missions

Numbers

Unit	Experience ID	Next experience ID	Knowledge and skills	Topic area	Classroom time	Study time	Acquired knowledge	Acquired skill
Number Systems	W1011		§10.311	Positional notation	60 minutes	180 minutes	understand positional notation	ability to use positional notation to represent numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems, ability to convert between representations of numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems
Alternative Base Addition	W1012		§10.311  §10.312  §10.313	Positional notation	60 minutes	180 minutes	understand positional notation, understand how numbers specified in positional notation are added	ability to use positional notation to represent numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems, ability to convert between representations of numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems, ability to count by one using numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems, ability to add together numbers in the binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems

Boolean algebra

Unit	Experience ID	Next experience ID	Knowledge and skills	Topic area	Classroom time	Study time	Acquired knowledge	Acquired skill
Boolean Algebra	W1013		§10.321  §10.322  §10.323  §10.324	Boolean algebra	60 minutes	240 minutes	understand the principles of Boolean algebra, understand how to use truth tables, understand how to represent a Boolean expression canonically, understand the use of DeMorgan's laws, understand the use of operators in Boolean algebra, understand the order of operations in Boolean algebra	demonstrate proficiency in using Boolean algebra, demonstrate proficiency in constructing and using truth tables, demonstrate the use of canonical representation for arbitrary Boolean expressions, demonstrate the appropriate application of DeMorgan's laws
Logic Gates	W1014		§10.325	Boolean algebra	45 minutes	120 minutes	understand the symbology of common logic gates	demonstrate proficiency in using the symbols of logic gates to document Boolean functionality
Bitwise Operations	W1015		§10.326	Boolean algebra	10 minutes	60 minutes	understand the use of bitwise operations with common Boolean operators	demonstrate proficiency in using bitwise operations with common Boolean operators
Logic Composition	W1016		§10.327	Boolean algebra	40 minutes	180 minutes	understand the use of logic composition to build complex Boolean operations from simpler building blocks	demonstrate proficiency in using logic composition to build complex Boolean operations from simpler building blocks
Binary Adders	W1017		§10.331	Boolean algebra	30 minutes	60 minutes	understand the construction and use of binary adders	demonstrate proficiency in constructing and using binary adders
SR Latch	W1018		§10.332	Boolean algebra	30 minutes	60 minutes	understand the construction and use of SR latches as the conceptual basis for memory	demonstrate proficiency in constructing and using SR latches

Computer history

Unit	Experience ID	Next experience ID	Knowledge and skills	Topic area	Classroom time	Study time	Acquired knowledge	Acquired skill
Computer History	W1021		§10.223	Contributors to computer science, Computer hardware	30 minutes	60 minutes	understand the evolution of computer hardware systems through time, identify key contributors to the development of computer science	demonstrate proficiency in explaining the progression of computer hardware systems through time, demonstrate proficiency in identifying the individuals and their contributions toward computer science

Encoding & data types

Unit	Experience ID	Next experience ID	Knowledge and skills	Topic area	Classroom time	Study time	Acquired knowledge	Acquired skill
Conversions	W1039		§10.711	Primitive types	20 minutes	30 minutes	understanding type casting and type conversions with regard to primitive types	ability to identify the appropriate target type for a conversion, ability to perform conversions to an appropriate type