<div dir="ltr">Hi John. This might be worth posting to the SD list so I've CC'd this reply to them ...<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the tip!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 09:23, Savage, John L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been trialling <a href="http://www.programarcadegames.com/" target="_blank">
http://www.programarcadegames.com/</a> (an American college course) with a year 10 class. They like it and they get it. We’ve looked at codeacademy and a few others over the past couple of years and while they are often very slick we’ve been unimpressed by
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<p class="MsoNormal">This site presents a self-paced chapter by chapter program. Each chapter is supported by videos on Youtube and consists of a teaching block where students would do some copy and paste into IDLE, a set of multiple choice questions to test
understanding, a theory worksheet to reinforce, and finally a lab to apply. The labs are well structured and the students are guided through the structure and logic of a program without being able to copy and paste. I find it incorporates well into a classroom
where I can sit with individual kids and steer them in a useful direction.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lesson one treats IPO by building little specialist calculators, and by lesson 4 the kids are writing a text based adventure game (based on an old BASIC game “Camel”). If a student perseveres (and they probably will because it’s fun) they
will have produced their own animated game, having explored arrays, iteration and classes along the way.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the table of contents<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Laurie Savage<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://accelerus.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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