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This page contains activities for when people (e.g., high school students) come to visit the university.

Computers in TC CS Classrooms

If you are visiting computer science at ISU, the computers in the classroom might have guest accounts enabled so that you can use the computers for your activities. If so, the login information will be on the board.

Cyber Capture the Flag

A cyber capture the flag contest or activity involves using computer skills to figure out clues. This could involve programming, connecting to servers, looking at source code of webpages, decrypting messages, and more.

Here are some to try out...

• Capture The Flag - a short list of problems with hints. A good first attempt.
• PicoCTF - practice problems. Requires creating a login.

Machine Learning

Machine learning includes very many different techniques to "teach" computer algorithms to do well at tasks that humans are normally good at.

Some activities to try out...

• Google Teachable Machine - you provide images or audio, and a machine learning model is created to classify into different classes. For example, is a picture a cat or a dog.

Python Turtle Art

Turtle art in programming is a classic way to learn about loops in programming while getting to do something visual.

Sample programs to try out...

• turtle_art.py

To try the programs out, you should download the program, open the program IDLE, open the python file you just downloaded in IDLE, and run the program. Once you can run the program, you can try changing things in the program to make different pictures.