$35
per classTrial Lesson: Coding and Game Development
Completed by 16 learners
Ages 7-12
Live One-Time Class
Live video meetings
Meets once
1-3 learners per class
60 min
What's included
1 live meeting
1 in-class hoursClass 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 code to create their own digital art project. I'll provide each student with a template project on codepen that they can edit, run, and test immediately. They'll be able to use code to add shapes and text, change colors, and move objects around on the screen. After the lesson, I'll send out a guide with potential next steps, including additional courses that I offer and how students can continue adding to their digital art project. Regardless of whether or not you chose to continue learning with me, my goal here is to give students a fun and empowering first experience with code.
Learning Goals
- 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
Other Details
Parental Guidance
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.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
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 confidence that I wish I’d had sooner.
I can still clearly remember taking my first computer science class and feeling convinced that it was too hard for me. At 18, I was pretty good at carrying out formulaic solutions, but I had almost no experience actually generating them. So when I encountered more open-ended problems in computer science, I found them extremely intimidating and discouraging.
Systematically approaching and deconstructing hard problems makes them much less stressful and more interesting, but this process is very different from what’s typically taught in school. Eventually, I developed this skill and applied it to the classes (and later, a career) that I’d once thought were too hard for me. But I really wish I’d started that process sooner.
My classes will introduce kids to coding, logic, and problem-solving. Because the best learning happens when the topic is fun and usable, students will apply these concepts to a game that they get to design, plan, and build.
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