AI For Youth: Grade 07

About Course

This course covers instructions and their limits. Students write step-by-step procedures precise enough for someone else to follow, trace them to find errors, and discover tasks that cannot be written as instructions at all, which is where AI begins. Features: self-paced, no coding, about 30 minutes per lesson, 8 lessons, 8 quizzes, 1 partner project, no prerequisites.

Course Content

Unit 1: Writing Precise Instructions
<p>How literally a computer takes you, how to break a job into steps small enough to follow, how to say do this to all of them and only do this if that is true, and how to find the place where your instructions went wrong.</p>

Lesson 1: Literal Instructions
Quiz 1: Literal Instructions
Lesson 2: Breaking a Job into Steps
Quiz 2: Breaking a Job into Steps
Lesson 3: Repeats and Decisions
Quiz 3: Repeats and Decisions
Lesson 4: Finding and Fixing Faults
Quiz 4: Finding and Fixing Faults

Unit 2: The Limits of Instructions
<p>Following a procedure by hand to see what it really does, then the jobs that defeat the whole method — and why that is a fact about the task rather than a failure of your effort.</p>

Lesson 5: Reading Someone Else’s Instructions
Quiz 5: Reading Someone Else’s Instructions
Lesson 6: Tasks That Cannot Be Written as Steps
Quiz 6: Tasks That Cannot Be Written as Steps
Lesson 7: Learning from Examples
Quiz 7: Learning from Examples
Lesson 8: Capstone — Instructions and Their Limits
Quiz 8: Instructions and Their Limits
Capstone Project: Write It, Then Try the Impossible One

About Course

Course Content

Unit 1: Writing Precise Instructions <p>How literally a computer takes you, how to break a job into steps small enough to follow, how to say do this to all of them and only do this if that is true, and how to find the place where your instructions went wrong.</p>

Lesson 1: Literal Instructions

Quiz 1: Literal Instructions

Lesson 2: Breaking a Job into Steps

Quiz 2: Breaking a Job into Steps

Lesson 3: Repeats and Decisions

Quiz 3: Repeats and Decisions

Lesson 4: Finding and Fixing Faults

Quiz 4: Finding and Fixing Faults

Unit 2: The Limits of Instructions <p>Following a procedure by hand to see what it really does, then the jobs that defeat the whole method — and why that is a fact about the task rather than a failure of your effort.</p>

Lesson 5: Reading Someone Else’s Instructions

Quiz 5: Reading Someone Else’s Instructions

Lesson 6: Tasks That Cannot Be Written as Steps

Quiz 6: Tasks That Cannot Be Written as Steps

Lesson 7: Learning from Examples

Quiz 7: Learning from Examples

Lesson 8: Capstone — Instructions and Their Limits

Quiz 8: Instructions and Their Limits

Capstone Project: Write It, Then Try the Impossible One

Welcome to Sheaves AI

Unit 1: Writing Precise Instructions
<p>How literally a computer takes you, how to break a job into steps small enough to follow, how to say do this to all of them and only do this if that is true, and how to find the place where your instructions went wrong.</p>

Unit 2: The Limits of Instructions
<p>Following a procedure by hand to see what it really does, then the jobs that defeat the whole method — and why that is a fact about the task rather than a failure of your effort.</p>