24 Courses
Coding Your Own Video Game With Roblox-YXU-2021-06
This course is designed to help students recognize the thought processes when they are formulating and solving problems to be carried out by a computer or device. These processes will help students become better at analyzing problems when they are coding.
Introduction to Computational Thinking-YXU-2021-05
Introduction to Computational Thinking
Ages and Qualifications: 13 to 17 with no prior experience
This course is designed to help students recognize the thought processes when they are formulating and solving problems to be carried out by a computer or device. These processes will help students become better at analyzing problems when they are coding.
Computational thinking is the thought processes involved in formulating problems and their solutions so that the solutions are represented in a form that can be effectively carried out by an information-processing agent. Four of these thoughts processes will be addressed during this workshop: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms. This workshop will focus on tackling problems using these thoughts processes and carrying-out solutions using a block-based coding language: Scratch 3. Participants will think analytically, design, and code in real time and will have an opportunity to share their knowledge with others. No prior programming experience is required to attend this online class.
At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
- Understand why computational thinking is pertinent when programming but also in their daily lives.
- Decompose problems in smaller sub-problems.
- Recognize patterns in problems facilitating decomposition, save time and make their code more efficient.
- Use abstraction to remove unnecessary details while solving a problem.
- Use algorithms to create a series of steps to produce pseudocode and code.
- Identify and use various coding mechanisms to make their code more efficient, including loops, variables, functions and lists.
Learn to Program with Micro:bit-YXU-2021-04
Ages: 8-12 years old
Description:
A micro:bit is a pocket sized little computer that runs the code the boys create using the Microsoft Makecode platform.
The boys will be required to think analytically, design, play, and code in real-time and will have an opportunity to share their knowledge with others. No prior programming experience is required to participate in this online class
mBlock Creating Smart Objects through Code-YXU-2021.03
Ages: 8-12 years old
Description:
