Coding

“Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.”
— by Bill Gates

Course Features

Structure Construction

Understand and master the movement control mechanisms of characters and backgrounds. Make simple games and animations.

Block-based Programming

Beginner-friendly to use scratch modules and develop more complex logic to control the scratch role to foster divergent thinking ability.

Data Analysis

Able to use the python programming language to complete programming for small problems and develop the ability to find, analyze, and solve problems.

Course Contents

Scratch

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced

Beginner

Understand and master creating movement

Use loop to control over the movement
Get familiar with various blocks, including Change X by (), change Y by (), and Make () steps

Control mechanisms of characters and backgrounds

Learn to set up borders
Connect borders and make them detect the characters

Make simple games and animations

Program different kinds of games such as collecting games, dodging games

Intermediate

Advanced use of Scratch modules

Identify a series of steps for a project
Get familiar with the process of testing and debugging

Use more complex logic to control the Scratch role

Purposefully use conditional logic in a project
Experimenting and iterating with a project

Advanced

Using variables and lists

Manipulate data by storing, retrieving, and updating values
Use mathematical and logical expressions to represent variables

Use events, interactions, and custom modules

Learn to prepare a development environment to create customized blocks
Modified and complied two projects into one

Python

Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Master

Beginner

Introduction to Python and text-based programming

Keywords in Python
Differentiate keywords from other identifiers
Understand case sensitive

Basic Input-Output operations

Practice with syntax for different types of operators
Arithmetic operators
Logical operators
Identity operators
Membership operators

Intermediate

Constants

Assigning value to constant in Python
Naming convention for constants

Literals

Numeric literals
String literals
Boolean literals
Special literals
Literal collections

Advanced

If statement syntax

If statement
If…else statement
If…elif...else statement
Nested if statements

For loop syntax

The range() function
For loop with else
While loop
While loop with else

Pass statement

Syntax of pass

Syntax of function

Call a function
Docstrings
Return statement

Master

Numbers in Python

Number system in Python
Type conversion
Decimal
Fractions
Mathematics

List

Create Python lists
Access list element (list index, negative indexing)
Listing slicing in Python
Add/Change list elements

Sets

Dictionary

Creating Python dictionary
Accessing elements from dictionary
Changing and adding dictionary elements
Removing elements from dictionary

Pandas for data analysis

Import Data sets
Clean and prepare data for analysis
Pandas Dataframe
Build data pipelines

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