Thinking and Creating with Code

Description de la formation

Objectif

How do we turn our ideas into real world applications? In order to make computers do what we want them to do, we need to be able to communicate with them - that is, we need to understand code. The goal of this course is to enable the students to understand how to turn concepts in human language into computer language.

In Thinking and Creating with Code, the students will walk through how to think about problems in the way that computers do, and how to implement ideas in the popular programming languages Python and JavaScript, which the students will learn along the way.

The course is designed for learners who have some background in HTML and CSS and how to work with data and databases. These topics are covered in the beginner-level 50 Things You Need to Know About the Internet and 50 Things You Need to Know About Data courses if the students would like to refresh their knowledge before they begin.

Contenu

• Using “boxes" to store different kinds of information: variables and data types
• Grammar rules for speaking to computers: programming syntax
• Putting the pieces together: functions, loops and conditionals
• Working with “boxes” that store lots of information: arrays and dictionaries
• Recycling and re-using code: libraries and frameworks
• Modeling the real world: objects and classes