Visual to text coding course

Use these two videos to:

• set up your programming environment.
• go through some of the common errors that people fall victim to!

Use these three videos to:

• learn how to store, concatenate and output data.
• build a simple application to consolidate knowledge of these skills

• Use pseudocode for code design.
• Introduce variables.
• Design and code a program to convert temperature units (°C to °F).
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself to build other converters, including currency.

• Introduce branching (decisions).
• Identify data types.
• Design and code a text-based calculator.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself with an ice cream vending interface and a Maths quiz.

• Introduce random numbers.
• Design and code a heads-or-tails game.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself with a dice roll simulator.

• Introduce combining of logical operators and and or.
• Design and code a game with complex win conditions.
• OPTIONAL: Have a go at designing your own Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock program.

• Set up pseudocode for code design
• Introduce Arrays and Lists
• Design and code a random Password Generator
• OPTIONAL: Create a random fantasy character, game show challenge and shopping list

• Introduce the length property for arrays.
• Design and code a Magic 8 Ball to advise you.

• Introduce iteration (loops).
• Design and code a times table generator for any number.

• Learn more about variables and iteration (loops).
• Design and code a higher/lower game, where the player must guess a secret number between 1 and 20.

• Discover how loops and arrays work together for powerful programs.
• Build a program to analyse student marks and make useful information.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself to process new data.

• Set up and practice using turtle graphics in Scratch, Python and JavaScript.
• Create functions without parameters.
• Incorporate loops (iteration) inside a function.
• Discover how functions help organise code.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself to draw a cosmic image

Note: Turtle graphics is an effective context to learn about functions, but examples will also be provided for writing functions outside of the turtle graphics context.

• Create functions that adapt their behaviour thanks to parameters.
• Observe how functions reduce repetition in code.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself to generate a size chart.

• Identify and describe some of the in-built functions you have been already been using.
• Create functions with return values. They give back an answer, rather than just perform an action.
• Observe how functions are used in Graphical User Interfaces, triggered by user inputs.
• OPTIONAL: Challenge yourself to write a small battle game by building a library of functions.