This class is fun. It ranges from beginning basics to intermediate concepts, and the activities/projects leave plenty of room for creative expansion.

I am sharing my own solution to the first three projects. I stick mostly within the prescribed parameters and then push each project just a little beyond. These links take you to a cloud version of my solutions, where they do work, but I recommend downloading them to run on your desktop. That's especially true for Project 3 which takes a long time to render on the cloud (like 2 minutes).

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

I find it clever the way that you have made the videos. The narrator (Rory or Eryn) is talking while the code is being written, but the narrator is not the one typing the code. This is a step up from the usual live coding approach where the audience has to wait as the narrator switches focus from typing to presenting; or the premade code approach where the audience has to try to read chunks of code and listen to the presenter at the same time. Bravo! It is easy to follow your presentation and read the code.

Hi, Mark. FWIW, problem 1 in Quiz 5 looks correct to me. One and only one of the statements is incorrect, and the scoring-bot agreed with me. You can e-mail me the specifics of what you think is incorrect.

OTOH, Problem 7 in Quiz 5 appears to be incorrect. I ran the code in the scratch window and I did not see the expected behavior. After getting it scored wrong, I guessed the correct answer. The code still didn't run correctly in the scratch notebook. [Being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers.]

Problem 11 on Quiz 5 is a really good question! It required thinking. I wish more questions like this were like this on the quizzes.

On Problem 4 on Quiz 5, I got the right answer. However, when I tried to run that code, one of the cases would not run correctly. I'd appreciate if @Rory || @Eryn would see if they see the same thing running manually. [Being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers. DM me if you need to see what I'm seeing.]

How can I access the framework??? I can't find anything on it and have no idea how to proceed with the out-of-class assignments.

The link to the framework was shown in the Chat area of the BigMarker session. Wolfram doesn't announce the link in the public community discussion because they only want students enrolled in this course to be going through the exercises and quizzes right now. Unfortunately, some might not realize that they need to stash away that URL during the class session.

@Alex, the link was at the top of the chat window with a light blue background. I went through two whole sessions of an earlier course and could never see it; the instructor had to highlight the area of the screen for me to find it. This was somewhat of a "see a tree in the forest" thing; I felt pretty silly. The blue background is intended to emphasize the link. Unfortunately -- for some of us -- the blue background makes the link less readable. I have some difficulty seeing characters crisply on a display and I don't have an eyeglass prescription to help with seeing small text clearly. I'm not sure if these young whippersnappers know what we're up against sometimes. Grumble. :)

I do wish they would put the link in the non-blue area. Or maybe -- gasp -- put the link twice in the Chat window: once in the blue area and once right below it.

Problem 5 in Quiz 1 of the Computational Thinking and Coding framework appears to be problematic. Problem 4 in Quiz 2 also has a problem.

Is this the way you would like to get feedback about the framework?

Quiz 2, Question 4 seems okay to me.

CORRECTION: Now that I've gotten my score for Quiz 2, I agree that there is a problem with Question #4.

Greetings! Thanks for pointing this out - these quiz questions and some others have been updated!