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Unplugged Activity | Getting Loopy

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Hi! My name is Miral Kobt.

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I'm the creator of iLuminate.

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In my work there is something I use in both dances

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and in programming light suits. And that is... loops!

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Loops are repeating an action over and over.

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When you repeat something multiple times, like my actions to keep the hula hoop spinning,

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I'm performing a loop of that action

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This is a loop

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Today we're going to have a dance party. We'll act out loops with a new dance: The Iteration.

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We're going to learn about loops using a dance.

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You'll learn a couple of easy steps and then repeat them over and over to complete the dance.

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Here are the steps you'll need to learn:

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clap your hands, put your hands behind your head

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put your hands on your waist, lift your left hand up

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lift your right hand up

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Pretty simple, right?

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Head, waist. Head, waist. Clap clap clap.

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Do you see how some steps are repeated? Such as clap? That's a loop!

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We need to do it two more, ready?

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You will discover that you can shorten the directions by putting some dance steps in loops.

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Are you ready?

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Now we're gonna do a belly laugh, ready?

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We actually do use loops in our dancing

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The dancers are wearing computers and they're all in the same network

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So I might loop the lights through the same dancers over and over again

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So in the loop I might have an iteration, I'll say you wanna go

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loop through these 6 dancers over and over again and then within the loop

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you'll want to increase the speed so that

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you're both looping through the same dancers but you're also increasing

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the speed of the lights so that it kind of plays a visual trick on the audience.

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And that's all created through loops.

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Loops are important in computer science because they make our work shorter and easier.