Trial Lesson: Coding and Game Development

A one-time lesson where students can try out coding, run their first lines of code, and decide if they'd like to do more.

7 total reviews for this teacher

3 reviews for this class

Completed by 13 learners

55 minutes

per class

Meets once

7-12

year olds

1-3

learners per class

per learner

How does a “One-Time” class work?

Meets once at a scheduled time

Live video chat, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Great for exploring new interests and different styles of teachers

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Available Times

Pacific Time

Mon Jun 6

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Monday
8:30pm - 9:25pm

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Thu Jun 16

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Thursday
8pm - 8:55pm

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Fri Jun 24

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Friday
9pm - 9:55pm

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Mon Jun 27

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Monday
8:30pm - 9:25pm

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Tue Jul 5

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Tuesday
8pm - 8:55pm

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Fri Jul 8

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Friday
10pm - 10:55pm

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Thu Jul 14

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Thursday
9pm - 9:55pm

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Description

Class Experience

This class is designed to introduce you and your student to coding and my teaching style, so that you can decide whether you'd like to continue with another one of my classes. This one-hour lesson will include:

- A discussion about "What is code?" and "What can you do with it?"
- An introduction to variables — a tool to store information for later — how to create them, and what kind of data they can hold. 
- How to run your first lines of code. 
- An open-ended project where students can use...

- Give students and parents more information about my teaching style and whether coding is something they'd like to learn
- Introduce coding as something doable and fun
- Engage students in a discussion about what coding is, and what they can do with it
- Introduce the concept of variables
- Get students started on a digital art project that they can customize and continue developing after the lesson is over

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:Codepen

55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

To make setup as easy as possible, we will use Codepen for writing and running code. You don't need to do any setup before the lesson, but you can set up a free account if you'd like.

Teacher

Lily Gentner

🇺🇸

Lives in the United States

Uber Software Engineer + Harvard Grad teaching coding, logic, and problem solving through game development

7 total reviews

11 completed classes

About Me

I studied Statistics and Computer Science at Harvard University before working at Uber and Square as a software engineer for over 4 years. Last year, I shifted my focus to teaching because I wanted to help kids develop the thinking skills and...