In this lesson, students review the concepts and commands they should be familiar with before beginning the course. They complete a few Tracy challenges on their own and then have a chance to work with a partner to create a larger, scaffolded project developing a digital art platform.
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i as a variableformatbreakforwardcircle penuppendowngoto / setpositionsetxsetyleftrightsetheading / sethbgcolorspeedcolor begin_fill / end_fillpensizewritetypeprintcapitalizeupperlowerisalphaisdigit / isnumericisupperislowerstartswithendswithinputonclickgetscreenreturnbreakIn this project, students work with a partner to create a digital art platform. They will follow scaffolded steps, but will also be given the opportunity to include some of their own ideas and design and will see what it takes to work successfully with another student while programming.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to lists. They learn why lists are used in programs and how to create them. Lists are created like this:
list_name = [item_1, item_2, item_3, ...]Students will be able to:
In this lesson, students learn about the positive and negative indexing system of lists and how items are accessed in a list.
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In this lesson, students learn how to update items in lists using the index value of the item.
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In this lesson, students learn various ways to add items to an existing list with the use of the insert, extend, and append methods.
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append method to add a new item to the end of a listextend method to add new items to the end of a listinsert method to add a new item at a specific index in a listIn this lesson, students learn various ways to remove items from an existing list with the use of the pop and remove methods and the del keyword.
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pop method with no argument to remove an item from the end of a listpop method to remove an item from a specific index in a listremove method to remove a specific item from a listdel keyword to remove an item from a specific index in a listIn this lesson, students learn how to use two new methods, sort and reverse, to alter list items.
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sort method to organize items in a list by valuereverse method to reverse the order of items in a listIn this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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list_name = [item_1, item_2, ...])list_name[index])list_name[index] = new_value)appendextendinsert+popremovedelsortreverseIn this lesson, students learn how to use the len function to determine the length of a list.
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len function to determine the number of items in a listlen function to access list itemsIn this lesson, students learn how to combine their knowledge of for loops and the len function to loop over items in a list one by one.
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In this lesson, students learn another way to loop over items in a list one by one.
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in keyword to access items in a list one by oneIn this project, students work with a partner to create an interactive to-do list. They will follow scaffolded steps, but will also be given the opportunity to include some of their own ideas and design and will apply what they previously learned about working successfully with another student while programming.
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In this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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len functionrange keywordin keywordStudents will get a chance to apply the Tracy commands and concepts they’ve learned so far to complete a project in this lesson. They will create a visual ticketing system using lists and user click interaction. They will also be able to include their own additional functionality to make the project their own.
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In this lesson, students learn how to access characters in a string using indexing.
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In this lesson, students learn how to access multiple characters in a string using slicing.
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#:#, #:, :#, :)In this lesson, students learn how to split strings into a list of characters or a list of groups of characters using list and split. They will also learn how to combine list items into a string using join.
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list to separate a string into a list of characterssplit to separate a string into a list of words or groups of characters depending on the element provided for the split characterjoinIn this lesson, students learn how to use four new methods, strip, replace, find, and count, to alter strings.
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strip method to remove leading and trailing whitespace from a stringreplace method to use a different character throughout a stringfind method to return the index value of the first location of a certain element in a stringcount method to return the number of times an element occurs in a stringIn this lesson, students learn how to loop over characters in a string and ways to update strings as they are looped over.
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in keyword to access characters in a stringrange keyword to access characters in a stringIn this project, students work with a partner to analyze a blog post about game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final in 2023. They will follow scaffolded steps and will learn about web scraping which they will be simulating in this project.
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In this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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string_var[index])string_var[index:index], string_var[index:], string_var[:index], string_var[:])list(string_var))string_var.split() or string_var.split(element))element.join(list_var))stripreplacefindcountStudents will get a chance to apply the Tracy commands and concepts they’ve learned so far to complete a project in this lesson. They will create a timeline using lists, string manipulation, and user interaction. They will be given the opportunity to get creative with the theme, layout, and functionality of their timeline.
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In this lesson, students explore the concept of files and understand the purpose and benefits of File I/O, gaining a high-level understanding of how data is stored on a computer.
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In this lesson, students learn how to read all or a given number of characters from a file using Python.
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open() function to open a file in read mode and the close() method to close the file properlyread() method and store them in a variableread method with a valueIn this lesson, students learn how to use the readline() method to read lines from a file.
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readline() method in Python for reading lines from a file.readline() to read a single line at a time.readline().readline() method to solve practical problems and perform operations on each line read from a file.In this lesson, students learn how to use the readlines() method in Python to read multiple lines from a file, and practice performing various operations on the line.
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readlines() method in Python.readlines().readlines() and perform operations on each line.readlines() in file handling scenarios.In this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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open and close methodsread method with and without a parameterreadline methodreadlines methodIn this lesson, students learn how to write to existing files. They will explore two modes: “w” for overwriting a file and “a” for appending to a file.
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In this lesson, students learn how to manipulate the file pointer position using the seek() and tell() methods in Python. They will explore how seek() can be used to move the pointer to a specific location within a file, enabling operations at desired positions.
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tell() method to return the location of the file pointerseek() method to move the file pointer to a specific position within a fileIn this lesson, students review content with a 10 question End-of-Unit Quiz.
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write to create new files and append information to already existing filestell to return file pointer positionseek to move the file pointer to a new positionIn this lesson, students will get a chance to apply the Tracy commands and concepts they’ve learned so far to complete a project. They will remix a poem using File I/O, lists, and string manipulation. They will be given the opportunity to get creative with the structure an content of their poem.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to the module where they will explore how Python is used in various industries. In this lesson, they will explore some high level resources about Python and reflect on their Python experience.
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In this lesson, students explore various ways Python is used in research. They see Python used in different industries such as sports, medicine, and academics.
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In this lesson, students explore various ways Python is used in big data. They see Python used in different industries such as sports, music, social media, and artificial intelligence.
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In this lesson, students explore various ways Python is used creatively. They see Python used in different industries such as gaming, design, and movies.
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In this lesson, students will be given much creative freedom to develop a project that showcases something from their research on Python in the real world.
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In this lesson, students review content with a 25 question End-of-Course Quiz.
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In this lesson, students review content with an assessment.
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