
Short Summary
Class Information
Availability
Thursdays 11AM (ET) - Spring 2025
Description
Intro to Programming is a live online class intended for middle and high school students who want to learn how to code. Over the semester, we will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to Computers and Programming
- Input Processing and Output
- Decision Structures and Boolean Logic
- Repetition Structures
- Functions
- Files and Exceptions
- Lists and Tuples
- More About Strings
Students can continue to explore more concepts at their own pace with these included bonus lessons:
- Dictionaries and Sets
- Classes and Object Oriented Programming
- Inheritance
- Recursion
- GUI Programming
Python – a high-level, general-purpose programming language
Python is one of the most loved programming languages by developers, data scientists, and software engineers because of its versatility, flexibility, and object-oriented features. It’s also an easy language to get started with, and the concepts carry over to many other programming languages.
Students will learn essential concepts of object-oriented programming, including basic Python syntax, data types and functions. We will also learn how to work with data and harness the power of popular Python libraries like Pandas and NumPy.
Python is free to download, and works on any computer.
Course Length
One Semester (15 weeks)
Grade Levels
6-12
Required Materials
No textbook is needed.
The latest version of Python and Visual Studio Code will need to be downloaded for use in this course.