How Khan Academy content relates to Mobile CSP curriculum

The Khan Academy content is designed as a supplementary resource for all AP CSP classrooms. There are many endorsed CSP curricula, and each of them teach the topics in a different order.

Mobile CSP is a curriculum that uses App Inventor to create mobile applications that explore the many topics.

This diagram gives a high level overview of how the Mobile CSP units relate to the Khan Academy units:

This table provides a more detailed breakdown:

Mobile CSP	Related content on Khan Academy
Unit 1: Getting Started: Preview & Setup	No related content for this unit
Unit 2: Introduction to Mobile Apps & Pair Programming	See below:
I Have a Dream Tutorial
Algorithm Basics	Lesson: Building algorithms
I Have a Dream, Part 2	Article: Conditionals with if, else, and Booleans, Exercise: Conditionals with if, else, and Booleans, Lesson: Collaboration innovations
Mobile Devices and Apps: Hardware and Software	Lesson: Bits and bytes, (Non-CSP) Lesson: Computer components
The Internet and the Cloud	Lesson: Introducing the Internet, Article: The World Wide Web, Article: HyperText Transfer Protocol, Exercise: Web protocols, Lesson: Communication innovations
I Have a Dream and Soundboard Projects
What is Abstraction?	Lesson: Variables
Binary Numbers	Lesson: Binary numbers, Lesson: Limitations of storing numbers
Hardware Abstractions: Logic Gates	(Non-CSP) Lesson: Logic gates and circuits
Impacts of CS: The Digital Explosion
Wrap Up
Unit 3: Creating Graphics & Images Bit by Bit	See below:
Paint Pot Tutorial	Lesson: Variables
Representing Images	Lesson: Storing text in binary, Lesson: Converting analog data to binary, Lesson: Lossless data compression, Lesson: Lossy data compression
Paint Pot Projects	Article: Nested conditionals, Exercise: Nested conditionals, Article: Compound booleans with logical operators, Exercise: Compound booleans with logical operators
Paint Pot Refactoring and Procedural Abstraction	Article: Defining a procedure, Exercise: Defining a procedure
Error Detection
Parity Error Checking
Map Tour Tutorial	Lesson: Strings, Article: Storing and updating lists, Exercise: Storing and updating lists
Map Tour With TinyDB
Impacts of CS: Electronic Documents	Lesson: Lossy compression (Also covered earlier)
Wrap Up
Unit 4: Animation, Simulation, & Modeling	See below:
LightsOff Tutorial	Article: Defining a procedure, Exercise: Defining a procedure (Also covered earlier)
LightsOff Projects
Logo Part I	Lesson: Repetition
Coin Flip Simulation Tutorial	Lesson: Simulating randomness
Coin Flip Experiment	Lesson: Creating simulations
Pseudo Random Numbers	(Non-CSP) Video: Pseudorandom number generators, Article: Mathematical expressions, Exercise: Mathematical expressions
Real World Models	Lesson: Exploring simulations
Abstraction: Inside the CPU	Lesson: Limitations of storing numbers (Also covered earler)
Impacts of CS: Privacy	Lesson: PII, Lesson: User data tracking, Lesson: Communication innovations
Wrap Up	Unit test: Simulations
Unit 5: Algorithms & Procedural Abstraction	See below:
Logo Part 2	Article: Procedures with parameters, Exercise: Procedures with parameters, Article: Procedures with return values, Exercise: Procedures with return values
Search Algorithms	Article: Measuring an algorithm's efficiency, Exercise: Measuring an algorithm's efficiency
Sorting Algorithms
Quiz App	Lesson: Strings, Article: Storing and updating lists, Exercise: Storing and updating lists (Also covered earlier)
Quiz App Projects: Loops with Lists	Article: Iterating over lists with loops, Exercise: Iterating over lists with loops
Analyzing Algorithms	Article: Categorizing runtime efficiency, Exercise: Categorizing runtime efficiency
Limits of Algorithms	Lesson: Solving hard problems
Parallel computing	Lesson: Parallel and distributed computing
Impacts of CS: Web Searches	Article: Search history
Wrap Up	Unit test: Algorithms, Unit test: Programming
Unit 6: Communication through the Internet	See below:
Computer Networking	Lesson: The digital divide, Lesson: Connecting networks
Network architecture	Lesson: Routing with redundancy, Lesson: Transporting packets
IP addresses and domain names	Lesson: Addressing the Internet, Article: Domain name system
Caesar Cipher App	Article: The need for encryption, Article: Encryption, decryption, and cracking
Cryptography Basics	Article: Symmetric encryption techniques
Cryptography: Securing the Internet	Article: Public key encryption, Exercise: Data encryption techniques, Lesson: Secure Internet protocols
Debugging Caesar Cipher
Cyber Security	Lesson: User authentication methods, Lesson: Cyber attacks
Impacts of CS: Cryptography and the Government
Wrap Up	Unit test: Online data security
Non-AP Explore: Impact of Computing Innovations	Lesson: Crowdsourcing innovations
Unit 7: Using and Analyzing Data & Information	See below:
Big Data	Lesson: Big data
Visualizing Data	Lesson: Data tools
Data Visualization Project
Data Map App
Clicker App with CloudDB (optional)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	Lesson: Bias in machine learning
Impacts of CS: Who Owns the Bits?	Lesson: Digital copyright and licenses
Wrap Up	Unit test: Data analysis, Unit test: Digital information (Most of the digital information content was introduced in earlier units, but at this point, they've covered it all)
Unit 8 - AP CS Principles Exam Prep	Unit: Exam preparation

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