Jesus Christ our Mediator

Jesus Christ our Mediator
Seek Him ........> Hear Him .......> Know Him .......> Be like Him

AP Computer Science Principles



Syllabus - Condensed version of the AP Syllabus (docs)

Syllabus - Complete code.org syllabus and course overview

Student Handbook 1 - Student Handbook 1

Vocabulary Unit by Unit

Quizlet Flashcards



CREATE   PT
Create PT Written Response Template - Open-->Copy and paste into a Google docs document-->Complete responses

Student - Digital Portfolio for College Board 


Teacher - Digital Portfolio for College Board

AP CSP - Assessment Overview and Performance Task Overview for Students



Media Library
What is Computer Science Principles?

How to Run An Hour of Code

What is the Internet?

The Internet: Wires-Cables-WiFi

The Internet: Packets-Routing-Reliability

The Internet: IP Addresses and DNS

DNS Explained

How the DNS works

The Internet: HTTP and HTML

Images-Pixels and RBG

The Internet: Encrytion and Public Keys

The Internet: Cyber Security and Crime


APP Lab - Here you build phone apps quickly and share them on your phone with friends

APP Lab Introduction

App Lap Demo

App Lab - How to Make an App Overview

CS Principles -  Design Mode in App Lab

APP Lab -  How to Make a Choose Your Own Adventure

APP Lab Tutorial -  Build a Drum Machine in 45 Minutes




Arete
(See in docs: "What it takes to be Great"

Click to see a few Areté synonyms




Arete (Greek) in its basic sense, means "excellence of any kind".The term may also mean"moral virtue" In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one's full potential.

The Ancient Greeks applied the term to anything: for example, the excellence of a chimney, the excellence of a bull to be bred and the excellence of a man.
The term from Homeric times onwards is not gender specific. Homer applies the term of both the Greek and Trojan heroes as well as major female figures, such as Penelope, the wife of the Greek hero Odysseus. In the Homeric poems, 
Arete is frequently associated with bravery, but more often with effectiveness. The man or woman of Arete is a person of the highest effectiveness; they use all their faculties—strength, bravery and wit—to achieve real results. In the Homeric world, then, Arete involves all of the abilities and potentialities available to humans. The concept implies a human-centered universe in which human actions are of paramount importance; the world is a place of conflict and difficulty, and human value and meaning is measured against an individual effectiveness in the world.

In some contexts, Arete is explicitly linked with human knowledge, where the expressions "virtue is knowledge" and "Arete is knowledge" are used interchangeably. The highest human potential is knowledge and all other human abilities are derived from this central capacity. If Arete is knowledge and study, the highest human knowledge is knowledge about knowledge itself; in this light, the theoretical study of human knowledge, which Aristotle called "contemplation," is the highest human ability and happiness."[2]

Ancient Greek people thought of arete as meaning something like the US Army's old slogan, "Be all that you can be." It meant that you were being the best person you could be. So arete would mean different things for different people. In the Odyssey, Penelope has arete, because she is the best wife that a woman can be. But Achilles in the Iliad also has arete, because he is the best warrior that a man can be, and Odysseus has arete because he is so clever, and thinks up effective plots, and athletes have arete when they win the foot-race.

Not only people could have arete - a well-built house, a beautiful piece of pottery, and a strong horse all had arete too. In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the ideal form of a thing is its arete, the goal that everything is trying to get to. As Plato says, arete is something you are always trying to achieve.

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