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Development Programming Languages Scratch Programming

Coding Foundations

Learn to think like a professional computer programmer!
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (12 ratings)
35 students
Created by Alex Leone
Last updated 7/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Skills and techniques used by professional programmers.
  • How to build games and programs you can show off to your friends.
  • How to use loops, if statements, variables, lists, events and more!
  • Programming knowledge that can be brought into any professional language you like.

Course content

10 sections • 58 lectures • 5h 31m total length

  • Preview02:26
  • Preview01:29
  • For Parents: How to Teach Programming
    04:05
  • Preview01:10
  • Welcome to LEVEL 1!
    00:35
  • Preview06:50
  • Preview03:54
  • Preview06:31
  • Preview06:52
  • LEVEL 1: Do More Things!
    16:31
  • Preview00:52
  • Preview01:38
  • Preview01:49
  • How to Ask Questions in this Course
    00:13
  • Preview01:56
  • Preview08:21
  • LEVEL 1 PROJECT: Scene from a Movie
    1 question
  • LEVEL 1 PROJECT: Music Box
    1 question
  • LEVEL 1 PROJECT: Keyboard Computer
    1 question
  • LEVEL 1 PROJECT: Identify Me
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 2!
    00:21
  • LEVEL 2: Cartesian Movement, part 1
    05:53
  • LEVEL 2: Which Corner?
    8 questions
  • LEVEL 2: Cartesian Movement, part 2
    06:34
  • LEVEL 2: Vector Movement, part 1
    04:53
  • LEVEL 2: What Direction?
    10 questions
  • LEVEL 2: Vector Movement, part 2
    10:28
  • LEVEL 2: Now Do It Again!
    09:05
  • LEVEL 2 PROJECT: Move Me
    1 question
  • LEVEL 2 PROJECT: Scene from a Movie, part 2
    1 question
  • LEVEL 2 PROJECT: Regular Motion
    1 question
  • LEVEL 2 PROJECT: A-Maze-ing
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 3!
    00:20
  • LEVEL 3: Taking Input
    08:58
  • LEVEL 3: Values
    13:28
  • LEVEL 3: On One Condition
    10:35
  • LEVEL 3: More Conditions
    13:27
  • LEVEL 3 PROJECT: Hello, You
    1 question
  • LEVEL 3 PROJECT: Regular Motion, part 2
    1 question
  • LEVEL 3 PROJECT: No Touchy
    1 question
  • LEVEL 3 PROJECT: A Guessing Game
    1 question
  • LEVEL 3 PROJECT: Quiz Show
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 4!
    00:24
  • LEVEL 4: Boolean Logic
    13:28
  • How to Think in Boolean
    02:43
  • Is it a Boolean?
    8 questions
  • How to Think in Conditionals
    02:47
  • Is it a Conditional?
    8 questions
  • LEVEL 4: Say When (Repeat Until)
    07:37
  • Pair Programming (Optional)
    05:13
  • LEVEL 4 PROJECT: Not Right Yet
    1 question
  • LEVEL 4 PROJECT: They're Both Right!
    1 question
  • LEVEL 4 PROJECT: Choose Your Own Adventure
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 5!
    00:17
  • LEVEL 5: Variables are Like Buckets
    22:41
  • Finding Good Names
    06:33
  • LEVEL 5 PROJECT: Simple Clicker
    1 question
  • LEVEL 5 PROJECT: Gotta Go Fast
    1 question
  • LEVEL 5 PROJECT: Secret Answer
    1 question
  • LEVEL 5 PROJECT: Click to Win
    1 question

  • Welcome to the BIG PROJECT!
    00:17
  • Preview02:37
  • Make a Plan
    01:18
  • Never Get Frustrated
    01:50
  • Explain the Problem
    02:06
  • Divide the Problem Up
    03:10
  • Start With What You Know
    03:01
  • Solving a Big Problem
    01:29
  • Recreate a Game
    2 questions

  • Welcome to LEVEL 6!
    00:22
  • LEVEL 6: The Basics of Lists
    23:29
  • LEVEL 6 PROJECT: Rock, Paper, Scissors
    1 question
  • LEVEL 6 PROJECT: Secret Answer, part 2
    1 question
  • LEVEL 6 PROJECT: It's One of Them...
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 7!
    00:19
  • LEVEL 7: How to Clone
    14:17
  • LEVEL 7: The Clone Lifecycle
    11:57
  • LEVEL 7 Project: Shooter Guy
    1 question
  • LEVEL 7 Project: Catch the Falling Stars
    1 question
  • LEVEL 7 Project: Whack a Sprite
    1 question

  • Welcome to LEVEL 8!
    00:16
  • LEVEL 8: Custom Events
    18:16
  • Custom Blocks
    16:40
  • LEVEL 8 Project: Main Menu
    1 question
  • LEVEL 8 Project: All the Same
    1 question
  • LEVEL 8 Project: Tic Tac Toe
    1 question

  • Welcome to your FINAL PROJECT!
    00:27
  • Final Project Overview
    02:07
  • Pick Your Project
    1 question
  • User Stories
    05:15
  • Plan Your Project
    1 question
  • MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
    03:05
  • Plan Your MVP
    1 question
  • Start Your Project
    01:28
  • Make Your MVP
    1 question
  • Complete Your Project
    1 question
  • Usability Testing (Optional)
    06:31
  • Usability Testing (Optional)
    2 questions

Requirements

  • Comfort using your web browser
  • A two-button mouse, or the ability to right-click
  • Some understanding of basic algebra, geometry, or logic (helpful, but not required, you'll learn what you need to know in this course)

Description

Coding Foundations will teach you to think the same way that professional programmers do!

Build your own computer games and programs from the ground up using problem-solving skills and foundational programming techniques. This course gives you the tools you need to easily approach more advanced, professional programming languages—like C++, Python, C#, or Java—without feeling lost or unsure of where to start.

Use the Scratch programming language from MIT to learn how to use professional programming tools like iteration, conditionals, variables, arrays, events, and functions. Plan out your projects and tackle new, big problems using the same methods as professional programmers.

Includes:

  • Techniques and strategies from professionals, accessible to beginners.
  • Over 30 projects to practice on.
  • Quizzes and slides to learn at your own pace and style.
  • One year of direct support from the Instructor.

Coding Foundations was designed with middle and high school students in mind but is for anyone who wants to learn to program using a powerful but easy-to-understand programming environment.

Who this course is for:

  • High school students
  • Middle school students
  • Programming beginners who want to learn to program using a powerful but easy-to-understand programming language

Instructor

Alex Leone
Software Developer and Educator
Alex Leone
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 12 Reviews
  • 35 Students
  • 1 Course

Alex has given group and private lessons in a variety of subjects since 2009 and has been teaching computer programming since 2016. He started programming when he was 12 years old and has worked as a professional software developer since 2011. He has programmed in many professional programming languages—including C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Python, and R—but he still loves to return to the basics and learn them all over again with each new group of students.

In his software developer life, he has had the privilege to work on mobile games for Disney, financial software for a local brokerage, activity registration software for K-12 schools, software for testing medical devices, and mobile and web-based educational games.

Alex loves programming—it’s just like magic!—and he hopes to have the opportunity to instill and develop the same love and excitement and wonder of programming in every student who wants to explore it.

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