This course continues the introduction of foundational concepts of computer programming, which unlocks the ability to make rich, interactive mobile apps. This course uses JavaScript as the programming language, and App Lab as the programming environment to build apps, but the concepts learned in these lessons span all programming languages and tools.

No of Sessions: 8

Duration: 55mins/session

Age Group: 8-10yrs

Learning Elements

• Use Design Mode to user interface (UI) elements to a screen.
• Create a simple event-driven program by creating user-interface elements with unique IDs and attaching event handlers to them.
• Recognize debugging and responding to error messages as an important step in developing a program.
• Recognize debugging as an important step in developing a program.
• Develop and design a plan for multi-screen application
• Collaborate with a "thought partner" during the implementation of a project
• Create a multi-screen application in App Lab using simple UI elements and event handling
• Store the value returned by a function (randomNumber, promptNum) in a variable for use in a program.
• Reason about multi-line segments of code in which variables are re-assigned multiple times.
• Use global variables to track numeric data in an app.
• Modify existing programs to add and update variables to track information.
• Create a multi-screen "clicker" game from scratch
• Write and test conditional expressions using Boolean operators AND (&&) OR (||) and NOT (!)
• Given an English description write compound conditional expressions to create the desired program logic
• Use a "chain" of if-else-if statements to implement the desired program logic
• When given starting code add if-else-if statements or compound boolean expression to express desired program logic