Make me a sandwich

[tinaverbo]

Make me a sandwich | Offline Activity - DRAFT

Overview

Activity Title: Make me a sandwich

By: Tina Verbo

Time: [aim for 45-60 minutes]

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding how specific (exact, precise, detailed) a computer programmer must be when
  programming to do a specific task
• Learn the basic programming concepts

Audience:
Beginner – intermediate web user

Materials: [include both online and offline materials needed to complete your activity]

• 2 tongs
• spoon
• mayonnaise/ peanut butter/ cheese
• 2 slices of bread
• blindfold

Offline Activity flow

• One person from the group will act as the robot/computer
• Blindfold the robot and make him use the tongs as his hands
• Ask the other members to instruct the robot instead of spoon, bread, mayo/pj/cheese they must use the words: tools, objects, etc.
• Robot must follow the programmers' instructions and make a sandwich

Reflection

Programming concepts:

• Algorithm
• Coding
• Debugging
• Function