| Unit | Description |
|---|---|
| Welcome: Students will get a sense of what this course is about and reflect on what they hope to get out of it. | |
| Introduction to Programming with Turtle Graphics: Students will learn Python commands, functions, and control structures by drawing shapes on their screen and solving puzzles with Turtle Graphics! | |
| Basic Python and Console Interaction: Students will learn the basics of programming by writing programs that interact with users through the keyboard! | |
| Conditionals: Students will teach their programs to make decisions based on the information it receives. | |
| Looping: Students will learn how to write more efficient code by using loops as shortcuts. | |
| Functions and Exceptions: Students learn how their programs can be decomposed into smaller pieces that work together to solve a problem. | |
| Strings: Students use more sophisticated strategies for manipulating text in their programs - slicing, concatenating, and formatting. | |
| Creating and Altering Data Structures: Students learn how tuples and lists are formed and the various methods that can alter them. | |
| Extending Data Structures: Students learn to build more complex programs that make use of grids and dictionaries. | |
| Project: Guess the Word: Students use the skills they've learned throughout the course to build a word guessing game. | |
| Final Exam: Students prove their knowledge of content learned throughout the course through a multiple choice, short answer, and programming exam. |
| Unit | Description |
|---|---|
| Classes and Objects: Learn the principles of object-oriented design. | |
| Advanced Tracy Challenges: | |
| Midterm: Students will prove their knowledge of the concepts covered in the first half of the course (Turtle Graphics, Basic Python, & Conditionals) through a midterm exam. | |
| Additional Topics: Teach your program to make decisions based on the information it receives. Learn how to decompose your program into smaller pieces that work together to solve a problem! | |
| Project: Mastermind: | |
| Categorizing Triangles: Explore how we can use a computer to perform calculations and make decisions based on user input! You will use Turtle Graphics in Python to draw a triangle and write text to the screen and then use if/else statements, variables, functions, and mathematical, logical, and comparison operators to print the resulting triangle category. | |
| Python Graphics: |
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