Grade levels 6-11 or by permission. Some experience is required.
Computers are provided but students are welcome to bring their own.
Grow your coding skills! This 5-week program will have separate groups for Java and Scratch but held at the same time in separate rooms. Students will remain with the same topic for all five weeks. Scratch is great for anyone wanting to learn basic coding concepts and skills. The Java class is especially good for preparing for high school level computer science classes. In both classes, students will be shown different examples of project coding to give them a better view of what is possible. Students with more experience or ability will be able to work at their own pace and have any help as needed. Students are encouraged to bring in projects they may be working on and need help with.
Scratch is a block-based language, which means that you drag desired instruction blocks into the program window and change values as needed to create your program or game. Values can be numbers or words. Students must have some experience such as the menu and basic tools, and have coded on their own or by using tutorials or in a class at school. Students will learn higher level skills and tools by creating a maze game and then multilevel platform games. Students must bring an email account to create their own Scratch account or be able to log into their own account.
www.scratch.mit.edu.
Java is a script-based language, which means that it uses words and special characters, and formatting like indentations. Students must have the ability to use a keyboard, follow code examples and type numbers, words and characters. No prior experience with a script-based language is required but will be helpful. We will use Replit as the editor where code will be entered and the programs will be run. Students must bring an email account to create their own account or be able to log into their own account if they have one.
https://replit.com/