Intro to Programming with Karel the Dog (Ace)

Course Overview

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MODULES - 12

• Introduction to Programming

  Students meet Karel and learn the fundamentals of writing a program by giving Karel commands to complete simple tasks.

• Functions

  Students learn how to teach Karel new commands by combining existing commands and defining functions.

• Super Karel and For Loops

  Students meet Super Karel, who can turn right. Students learn how to repeat commands with for loops.

• If Statements

  Students learn how to use if statements when solving problems. By having Karel check for specific conditions, students can write programs that can be executed successfully in multiple scenarios.

• While Loops

  Students build on their understanding of for loops as they learn how to use while loops to repeat commands while a specific condition is true.

• Control Structures and Ultra Karel

  Students practice using all of the control structures together to write more complex problems, and meet Ultra Karel, who knows how to paint the world fun colors.

• Karel Challenges

  Students solve some tricky challenge puzzles with Karel that combine the concepts they learned throughout thee entire course.

• Final Project

  Students complete a culminating project where they create their own Karel program!

• Final Karel Multiple Choice Quiz

  End of course multiple choice exam assessing student proficiency in programming fundamentals

• Extra Karel Activities

  It can take some time to learn all of Karel's tricks. Brush up here with some extra Karel practice and challenge problems. These reinforce all of the fundamental concepts introduced in Karel, including commands, functions, loops, conditions control structures, and problem decomposition.

• Karel Syntax Introduction

  This supplemental module will help anyone new to text coding to understand how syntax and the Karel IDE function in order to run code!

• JavaScript Basics

  Students learn the basics of JavaScript including variables, user input, mathematics, and functions.