Intro Programming

Have some students act as robots while their peers give them instructions to teach students how to interact with and think like machines.

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Have students color maps using the fewest number of colors while ensuring that bordering countries are different colors to expose them to optimization problems.

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Challenge students to place the fewest number of ice cream vans on a map of a town while maximizing ice cream availability to introduce the brute-force method in an accessible way.

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Use Monopoly, explaining that the game is a class, to demonstrate Java classes and objects in a familiar and interactive way.

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Ask student teams to design a controller for a coffee machine in Java to practice design modification.

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Misconception: Students think you can use the “item (any) of (list)” block in Snap! and Scratch to check for every item in a list, but this block actually returns a random item.

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Have students implement simple filters on sound objects so they can parse strings of notes into recognizable melodies to get practice manipulating strings.

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As a final project, have students create a generic side-scrolling game in Java so they can creatively showcase their object-oriented programming abilities.

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Have students create a program in Python that draws a map of the stars in order to gain practice using dictionaries to manipulate real data.

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Emphasize the importance of documentation when working with spreadsheets or any programming language for future reference.

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