Daily Work - Computers Required - Bring Your Own Computer Every Day
IB Computer Science - Frankfurt International School - Dave_Mulkey@fis.edu - 2013

We will mostly writing programs in Java as well as learning technical concepts and vocabulary about comptuer systems.  Each student needs a computer for this work.  Since there are no computers available in the classroom, you need to bring your own computer to class :

• bring your laptop to class every day
• in working condition (not broken)
• with the battery charged
• containing your current project
• and containing all required software

We will have lectures, but you will also be practicing and developing projects.  A normal lesson will start with a 20 minutes lecture explaining some technical skills, followed by 30 minutes of trying to use those techniques in your own project.  If you don't bring a computer, you will waste 30 minutes doing nothing or watching another student do something useful.

Projects will build up slowly for several days, so you will normally be continuing to add new pieces to the project you started previously.  You need to bring your own computer, which contains your project work from the previous day.

You will be using non-standard software - programs that are not installed on every computer.  So you need to bring a working computer with the correct software installed.

Some homework is required.  That requires you to take your computer home and continue working there, working on the same project you were writing in class.

So you see, bringing your own computer with you to class is an absolute necessity - every day.  Borrowing a computer from someone else does not help very much, so it's not really an option.