WHAT WE'VE LEARNED
 

MISSION WEEK 1 PHOTOS

What a computer is, and whether it is smart. That pasta is everyone's favorite food. Input, output, CPU, and the role of software. What the inside of a computer looks like.

MISSION WEEK 2 PHOTOS

How to build and program our own LegoPuter. How to make a program that will let Zeb know when he can sleep in and when he must do his chores. That sometimes programs have bugs.

MISSION WEEK 3 PHOTOS

How to program classmates and robots. Why some programs are better than others. What Statements, Subroutines, Parameters and Arguments are. What recursion is. How to program a robot to draw a square in different ways.

MISSION WEEK 4 PHOTOS

That a program contains a main program and a set of subroutines. How to debug. How to play Herbert.
(Note: You can access your levels here. Your login is FirstName.LastName@scdspc.org.)

MISSION WEEK 5 PHOTOS

How to use parameters, arguments, and recursion to produce better programs. What a stack is. How to program Herbert to do things a certain number of times.

MISSION WEEK 6 PHOTOS

How to follow a line edge. Loops and conditionals. How to make a program change what it does based on input. What computer languages are and how they differ. How to build a robot that can be scared.

MISSION WEEK 7 PHOTOS

What Object-Oriented Programming means. What Classes, Objects, Methods, and Properties are. How to build a Lego car using Object-Oriented techniques. How to program characters on a web page.
Note: your web pages are here.

MISSION WEEK 8 PHOTOS

Variables, For loops, and coordinate systems. How to make programs that make text output, draw squares, or fly spaceships. That phrogram is a fun computer language.

MISSION WEEK 9 PHOTOS

3D Coordinate systems. The basic program structure of a real-time game. How to make fun drawing programs. How to make cool stars and photon torpedoes. That it's fun to drive your spaceship into planets.

MISSION WEEK 10 PHOTOS

Arrays, Random numbers, and how to use both to make exciting games! And that we can help Robby clear this site of bugs. :)