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Code.org Bringing Economics to Life ( and to your phone)
Computer science is the art of blending human ideas and digital tools to increase our power. Computer scientists work in so many different areas: writing apps for phones, curing diseases, creating animated movies, working on social media, building robots that explore other planets and so much more.
Task:
This semester we will be designing a game (or 4, or 8 games). We will learn to do this together. The first lesson is from the website Code.org, which has a series of online lessons to show you the basics.
The first activity is a set of 20 self-guided puzzles that teach the basics of computer science for users with no prior experience. In each puzzle, you write a program that gets a character through a maze. The activity uses Blockly, a visual programming language that has blocks you drag and drop to write programs. The activity includes instructional videos before puzzles #1, 6, 10, 14, 18, and a wrap-up video after the last puzzle. The characters in the activity are from the popular games Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.
Even though you will be using blocks to write code, you will be able to see the code you wrote represented in Javascript, a text-based language.
Once you begin the first lesson, you will need to sign up to save your progress. Click here to begin. Lesson 1
Code.org Bringing Economics to Life ( and to your phone)
Computer science is the art of blending human ideas and digital tools to increase our power. Computer scientists work in so many different areas: writing apps for phones, curing diseases, creating animated movies, working on social media, building robots that explore other planets and so much more.
Task:
This semester we will be designing a game (or 4, or 8 games). We will learn to do this together. The first lesson is from the website Code.org, which has a series of online lessons to show you the basics.
The first activity is a set of 20 self-guided puzzles that teach the basics of computer science for users with no prior experience. In each puzzle, you write a program that gets a character through a maze. The activity uses Blockly, a visual programming language that has blocks you drag and drop to write programs. The activity includes instructional videos before puzzles #1, 6, 10, 14, 18, and a wrap-up video after the last puzzle. The characters in the activity are from the popular games Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.
Even though you will be using blocks to write code, you will be able to see the code you wrote represented in Javascript, a text-based language.
Once you begin the first lesson, you will need to sign up to save your progress. Click here to begin. Lesson 1