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** SBasic Curriculum: Online, 6 Lessons:
Lesson 1.1: Introduction   1.2: Statements, Properties, and Operations 1.3: Variables
1.4: Conditions and Loops   1.5: Branching and Subroutines

Lesson 2.1: Graphics Window 2.2: Turtle Graphics 2.3: Exploring Shapes
  2.4: Sound, Program, and Text Objects 2.5: Clock, Desktop, and Dictionary Objects 2.6: Flickr, ImageList, and Network Objects
Lesson 3.1: File Input and Output 3.2: Stacks and Arrays 3.3: The Math Object      3.4: Events and Interactivity 3.5: The Controls Object 3.6: Debugging Aids

Lesson 4.1: Playing with Shapes 4.2: Responding to Events 4.3: Collision Detection

4.4: Advanced Games

Lesson 5: Sharing Code

Lesson 6: Graduating to Microsoft Visual Basic

Games: Hangman, Solitaire, Slot Machine, Space Invaders, Step Up, Turtle Maze.

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Learning to code is like learning a musical instrument or a foreign language.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. It takes at least 5 years until you are good at it.

The traits of a coder include:

. Enthusiasm: if you're not hungry to learn you won't succeed.

. Patience: accept and tolerate delay, problems, suffering.

. Trial & Error: embrace your errors, don’t give up easlily.

. Practice: repetition and trying harder things.

. Agility: an open mind & willingness to adopt better ways.

. Positive Attitude: will help you maintain the above.

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Facts About Israel: History

2010 Edition

Section of an illuminated late-medieval map of the Tribes of Israel (Courtesy R. Ben-Haim)

זכר ימות עולם בינו שנות דור ודור… – דברים ל”ב:ז

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations… (Deuteronomy 32:7)

The birthplace of the Jewish people is the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). There, a significant part of the nation’s long history was enacted, of which the first thousand years are recorded in the Bible; there, its cultural, religious, and national identity was formed; and there, its physical presence has been maintained through the centuries, even after the majority was forced into exile. During the many years of dispersion, the Jewish people never severed nor forgot its bond with the Land. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish independence, lost 2,000 years earlier, was renewed.

Archeology in Israel involves the systematic investigation of all the remains of the country’s past – from prehistory to the end of Ottoman rule. The profusion of material remains is evidence of the many cultures that have left their imprint on the Land.

Above all archeological research clearly reveals the historical link between the Jewish people, the Bible and the Land of Israel, uncovering the remains of the cultural heritage of the Jewish people in its homeland. These visible remains, buried in the soil, constitute the physical link between the past, the present and the future of the Jewish people in its country.

This unbroken chain of history can be observed at sites all over the country. Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, has been the focus of extensive archeological activity and remains of 5,000 years of history have been revealed.

TIMELINE OF HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS

17th-6th C. BCE	BIBLICAL TIMES
(BCE – Before the Common Era)
c.17th century	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob – patriarchs of the Jewish people and bearers of a belief in one God – settle in the Land of Israel. Famine forces Israelites to migrate to Egypt.
c.13th century	Exodus from Egypt: Moses leads Israelites from Egypt, followed by 40 years of wandering in the desert. Torah, including the Ten Commandments, received at Mount Sinai.
13th-12th centuries	Israelites settle in the Land of Israel
c.1020	Jewish monarchy established; Saul, first king.
c.1000	Jerusalem made capital of David’s kingdom.
c.960	First Temple, the national and spiritual center of the Jewish people, built in Jerusalem by King Solomon.
c. 930	Divided kingdom: Judah and Israel
722-720	Israel crushed by Assyrians; 10 tribes exiled (Ten Lost Tribes).
586	Judah conquered by Babylonia; Jerusalem and First Temple destroyed; most Jews exiled.
THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
538-142	Persian and Hellenistic periods
538-515	Many Jews return from Babylonia; Temple rebuilt.
332	Land conquered by Alexander the Great; Hellenistic rule.
166-160	Maccabean (Hasmonean) revolt against restrictions on practice of Judaism and desecration of the Temple
142-129	Jewish autonomy under Hasmoneans.
129-63	Jewish independence under Hasmonean monarchy.
63	Jerusalem captured by Roman general, Pompey.

63 BCE-313 CE	Roman rule
63-4 BCE	Herod, Roman vassal king, rules the Land of Israel; Temple in Jerusalem refurbished
(CE – The Common Era)
c. 20-33	Ministry of Jesus of Nazareth
66	Jewish revolt against the Romans
70	Destruction of Jerusalem and Second Temple.
73	Last stand of Jews at Masada.
132-135	Bar Kokhba uprising against Rome.
c. 210	Codification of Jewish oral law (Mishna) completed.
FOREIGN DOMINATION
313-636	Byzantine rule
c. 390	Commentary on the Mishna (Jerusalem Talmud) completed.
614	Persian invasion
636-1099	Arab rule
691	On site of First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock built by Caliph Abd el-Malik.
1099-1291	Crusader domination (Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem)
1291-1516	Mamluk rule
1517-1917	Ottoman rule
1564	Code of Jewish law (Shulhan Arukh) published.
1860	First neighborhood built outside walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
1882-1903	First Aliya (large-scale immigration), mainly from Russia.
1897	First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl in Basel, Switzerland; Zionist Organization founded.
1904-14	Second Aliya, mainly from Russia and Poland.
1909	First kibbutz, Degania, and first modern all-Jewish city, Tel Aviv, founded.
1917	400 years of Ottoman rule ended by British conquest; British Foreign Minister Balfour pledges support for establishment of a “Jewish national home in Palestine”
1918-48	British rule
1919-23	Third Aliya, mainly from Russia
1920	Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and Haganah(Jewish defense organization) founded. Vaad Leumi (National Council) set up by Jewish community (Yishuv) to conduct its affairs.
1921	First moshav (cooperative village), Nahalal, founded.
1922	Britain granted Mandate for Palestine (Land of Israel) by League of Nations; Transjordan set up on three-fourths of the area, leaving one fourth for the Jewish national home. Jewish Agency representing Jewish community vis-a-vis Mandate authorities set up.
1924	Technion, first institute of technology, founded in Haifa.
1924-32	Fourth Aliya, mainly from Poland.
1925	Hebrew University of Jerusalem opened on Mount Scopus.
1929	Hebron Jews massacred by Arab terrorists.
1931	Etzel, Jewish underground organization, founded.
1933-39	Fifth Aliya, mainly from Germany.
1936-39	Anti-Jewish riots instigated by Arab terrorists.
1939	Jewish immigration severely limited by British White Paper.
1939-45	World War II; Holocaust in Europe.
1941	Lehi underground movement formed; Palmach, strike force of Haganah, set up.
1944	Jewish Brigade formed as part of British forces.
1947	UN proposes the establishment of Arab and Jewish states in the Land.

1948	STATE OF ISRAEL
1948	End of British Mandate (14 May) State of Israel proclaimed (14 May). Israel invaded by five Arab states (15 May) War of Independence (May 1948-July 1949) Israel Defense Forces (IDF) established
1949	Armistice agreements signed with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. Jerusalem divided under Israeli and Jordanian rule. First Knesset (parliament) elected. Israel admitted to United Nations as 59th member.
1948-52	Mass immigration from Europe and Arab countries.
1956	Sinai Campaign
1962	Adolf Eichmann tried and executed in Israel for his part in the Holocaust.
1964	National Water Carrier completed, bringing water from Lake Kinneret in the north to the semi-arid south.
1967	Six-Day War, Jerusalem reunited.
1968-70	Egypt’s War of Attrition againstIsrael
1973	Yom Kippur War
1975	Israel becomes an associate member of the European Common Market.
1977	Likud forms government after Knesset elections, end of 30 years of Labor rule. Visit of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem.
1978	Camp David Accords include framework for comprehensive peace in the Middle East and proposal for Palestinian self-government.
1979	Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed. Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1981	Israel Air Force destroys Iraqi nuclear reactor just before it is to become operative. 2isr 8lst 8timeline
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