Summer Academy - Raspberry Pi

Issued by Molloy University

Earners of this badge learned and experienced CPU architecture and coding in assembly language, high-level languages such as C and Python and basic algorithms, fundamentals of the Linux operating system and networking and simple circuit design and demonstration.

Type Experience
Level Foundational
Time Days
Cost Paid

Skills

Earning Criteria

Students learned about IP and MAC addresses, their purpose, and the twisted pair colors and numbers in the wire.
Students built Ethernet Cat-5 patch cables and used a switch to create a local network of Raspberry Pis.
Students used SSH to connect to a cloud-based virtual computer and wrote simple x86 Assembly Language code to compile, debug and understand how integers, characters and floating point numbers are represented in the CPU.
Students solved some computer problems such as Zeller's congruence in Python and created a simple binomial hash algorithm in Python.
Students learned the binary and hexadecimal numbering systems and where they are used.
Students programmed applications, experienced operating system user, file, and process management and basic circuit design.
Students learned about Raspberry Pi's operating system, the Linux.