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How to Use Jeroofor Visual Basic in your CS1 classroom
- > for Java click here
- >Here are the island files zipped up.

Each section of Jeroo is introduced with a PowerPoint presentation that has accompanying notes for students to fill in during the presentation followed by one or more hands-on labs and activities using Jeroo.

0- Know the Environment
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities	Warm-ups
VB00-Introduction to Jeroo ppt notes	none	Lab 0 - design your original letter island	Demo 0: Watch an Island being designed	An introduction

1- Create a Working Program
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities	Warm-ups
VB01-Jeroo Code ppt notes	Programming preparation paper for Lab 1.	Lab 1: Pick a Flower. Challenge: Lab 1b: Walk Across	Explore: What-if #1 Demo 1: Watch a program running	where?, Jeff

2- Use the IDE and language to solve problems
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities	Warm-ups
VB02-OOP features of the Jeroo language ppt notes	Lab 2a: Island N warmup blank graph paper	Lab 2a: Island N	What-if #2	swap (test each other's answers to see if they work!), OOP syntax
	Prepare for using the features of OOP	Lab 2b exercises: Letter J, Lake Island, The Relay	Find the Errors	what letter?, syntax errors, shortest path

3 – Divide programs into sections
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities	Warm-ups
VB03-Using Methods ppt notes		Lab 3a: Rewrite the code as methods for Lake Island and the Relay		what if#3, what if #4
		Lab 3b: Spelling Bee		syntax errors
	Twisted island ( under construction)	Lab 3c: Island N Using Methods, Skinny Island,	Twisted island ( under construction)

4 – Control program flow with loops and conditionals
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities	Warm-ups
VB04- Loops and Conditions ppt notes		Lab 4a. Loops: Pick a row, Find Water, Circle Ring	Obstacle Course	if warmup
VB04 part 2 – More Loops and Conditions ppt notes		Lab 4b Challenge: Line Up, Loop Labs		when do you stop?

5 - Writing complex programs
PowerPoint with notes	Additional Student Handouts	Labs for Students to do	Additional Activities
VB05 - developing algorithms ppt notes	Design algorithms on paper using stepwise refinement	Lab 5a: Garden planting	Labyrinth Islands, Navigate problem	pickARow
VB06 - Using good style, comments and indentation ppt notes	Team Planting problem solving (under construction)	Lab 5b: Complex Programs Lab 5c: Two Friends Meet		complex conditions

6 – Intermediate Activities
There are a variety of challenging problems in the Jeroo labs including: Hurdle Race, ZigZag Lakes , Pick All Flowers, The Maze, Walk the Lake . (These are from jeroo.org, D Sanders and B Dorn and E. Eddy)

Notes:

All files required for students and demonstrations are on the CD in the JerooFiles folder and should be transferred to the pickup drive for students to copy to their drives. I'll upload a zip file of them asap (7/13/05)
- Jeroo code files end with .jsc (Jeroo Source Code) and the islands end with .jev (Jeroo Environment)
It is a good idea to make copies of the one page (back to back) Summary of the Jeroo language for each student in the classroom to use as a reference.
At jeroo.org Please read:
- Overview of Jeroo
- Benefits of Jeroo
Resources:
- You can download Jeroo for free at http://www.jeroo.org . Complete instructions are online. You need to have Java 1.4 or later installed to use Jeroo.
- There is complete documentation for all features of the Jeroo language and environment under the DOWNLOAD section of the Jeroo website.
Using Jeroo in an introductory programming class:
- Option 1: Start early. Use Jeroo as a first exposure to programming. It's fun and easy!
- Option 2: Integrate: Use Jeroo to introduce the concepts of conditions, loops, objects and methods early in the year, switch back to Visual Basic and then return to Jeroo for challenging problems later in the year.
- Option 2: Use Jeroo to introduce the concept of objects, methods and constructors at the end

Link to original 2004 activities and PowerPoint presentations and notes for Java/C++ and VB

How to Use Jeroofor Visual Basic in your CS1 classroom - > for Java click here - >Here are the island files zipped up.

How to Use Jeroofor Visual Basic in your CS1 classroom
- > for Java click here
- >Here are the island files zipped up.