If you have looked through our courses you would have seen our range of lessons on Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and more courses on using those languages as tools in Game Development, Web development and Design.
We also have an Intro to Coding course where we have stripped down and simplified our level one courses to give you a quick taste of what coding looks like with some fun finished products.
If you're new to programming, this is where you want to start so you can see what language you want to learn first: the easy to learn Python, with it's simpler commands that are easy to understand and remember. Widely used JavaScript, which is commonly used by a wide group of developers for gaming, creating large text based programs, to making websites interactive. Or do you want to dip your toes into the markup languages of HTML and CSS to create beautiful and informative webpages.
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The Code Avengers Introduction track has 3 lessons, 5 projects and a quiz, with more learning material being added often.
The track starts with our HTML/CSS Introduction. In 5 lessons, this 2 hour course will teach you about tags and the basic structure of a webpage, how to add images, videos and links and a little CSS to add style to your webpage. At the end of this course you will have made a WikiJnr webpage, tested your knowledge with a quiz and learned a little about JQuery, the JavaScript library that can add all sorts of cool functionality to your web page.
In this 10 lesson intro to JavaScript you'll learn how to use variables, if statements, alerts and prompts to build your own quiz app. When your done, you can build your first game with our "Intro to Game Development" listed in the projects section on the right and practice important concepts like drawing graphics, following sequences or reading co-ordinates.
View the outline of the Intro to JavaScript
Finally, the 5 lesson Introduction to Python course. This 1 hour course will give you a short overview of all of the basics of Python. It's great if you just want to get an idea of what the language is like, or if you have never done any programming before. In here you will learn a range of Python skills such as input, output, variables, if statements, turtles and loops to build a basic program.
This lesson plan contains a 10 lesson unit of learning for 12-14 year olds.
Gain an introduction to coding with our Introductory JavaScript, PaperScript and HTML/CSS courses.
In lessons 1-4 we will make a quiz using JavaScript.
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Then we will make our own games in JavaScript with a little more in-depth code.
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Finally, we will make a webpage for children and add it to Wiki Jr.
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