Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Packed with fun examples, colorful graphics, and easy-to-follow plain English instruction,?Teach Your Kids to Code?is a course parents, teachers, and students can enjoy together, as they build one of the top job skills of the 21st century! Python is a great first language for beginners, but it's powerful enough to be used in companies from Google to IBM. 

The course is easily understood by absolute beginners, with example code. Quick, hands-on lessons will get you coding your own apps from scratch in minutes. Over 100 video lectures and?six and a half hours of content?in short, 2-to-8-minute videos will give you the practice you need to master the powerful new coding skill. 

Everything you need to get started right away. Complete with working code downloads and high-definition videos, you can work alongside a professor with 22 years of teaching experience and over 30 years of programming knowledge. You'll also receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing the course. 

What You Will Learn

  • Learn to code apps and games in Python 3.9 for Chromebook, PC, Mac, or Linux
  • Drawing colorful spirals and shapes with Turtle graphics in Python
  • Creating fun, playable games like War, Yahtzee, and Rock-Paper-Scissors
  • Coding interactive apps that respond to user input and mouse clicks
  • Master variables, loops and functions to prepare for more advanced programming courses (and a brighter future)!

Program Curriculum

  • Welcome and Introduction
  • Installing Python and Getting Started
  • NEW: Installing Python 3.6 and Getting Started
  • Update: Installing Python 3.6 on Windows PC's
  • Update Video: Using Python 3.5 on Windows
  • Writing Your First Program in Python
  • Running and Modifying Programs in Python
  • Extra App: NiceHexSpiral.py
  • Coding Python on Chromebook!
  • What You Can Do Now
  • Programming Challenges - Practice What You've Learned
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • Introduction to Turtle Graphics in Python
  • SquareSpiral: Our First Turtle Program
  • Turtle on a Roll: Building A Winding Spiral
  • Loop the Loop: Creating a Circle Spiral
  • Adding Color to Your Turtle Drawings
  • Painting a Four-Color Spiral
  • Changing Background Colors
  • One Variable to Rule Them All...
  • S2P1 Programming Challenge Solution: 10-color Spiral!
  • S2P2 Programming Challenge Solution: How Many Sides?
  • S2P3 Programming Challenge Solution: Rubber Band Ball

  • Intro to Variables: Where We Keep Our Stuff
  • Numbers?and Math in Python
  • Python Numbers and Operators
  • Math in the Python Shell
  • Syntax Errors: What Did You Say?
  • Variables in the Python Shell
  • Programming with Operators
  • Strings: The Real Characters in Python
  • Improving Our Color Spiral with Strings
  • Lists in Python
  • Python Math App: Python Does Your Math Homework!
  • S3P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Circle Spiral Input!
  • S3P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Color Me Spiraled

  • Loops are Fun: You Can Say That Again!
  • Building Your Own FOR Loops
  • Using a FOR Loop to Draw a Rosette
  • Modifying a FOR Loop
  • Adding User Input in Turtle: Rosette Gone Wild!
  • Special Guest Lesson: Alex's Colorful Rosette Loop
  • The WHILE Loop: 'Til it ain't so!
  • A Family Spiral
  • Multi-Spiral: Spiral Goes Viral!
  • S4P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Spiral Rosettes!
  • S4P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Viral Family Spiral!

  • Intro to Conditions: What If?
  • If Statements
  • Comparison Operators
  • If Example: Old Enough
  • Else Statements
  • Polygons or Rosettes
  • Even or Odd
  • Elif Statements
  • Complex Conditions: And's, Or's, & Not's
  • Secret Messages: The Caesar Cipher
  • Encoder Decoder Program
  • Section 5 Programming Challenges
  • S5P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Rosettes and Spirals!
  • S5P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Encoder Decoder Key!

  • Intro to Random Numbers and More in Python
  • A Guessing Game
  • Colorful Random Spirals
  • Canvas Size and Coordinates in Turtle Graphics
  • The Random Spiral Program
  • Rock-Paper-Scissors
  • Dealing Cards
  • Comparing Cards
  • The Game Loop to Keep It Going
  • Our Finished High-Card Game
  • Rolling Dice
  • Testing for a Yahtzee!
  • Our Finished Five Dice Game
  • A Colorful Kaleidoscope
  • S6P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Kaleidoscope v2.0
  • S6P2 Programming Challenge Solution: Kaleidoscope v3.0
  • S6P3 Programming Challenge Solution: WAR!

  • Intro to Functions in Python
  • Putting Code Together with Functions
  • Creating a Random Spiral Function
  • Parameters: Feeding Our Pet Function...
  • Smileys at Random Locations
  • Our Random Smiley App
  • Return: It's What You Give Back those Counts...
  • Using Return Values in a Program
  • Handling Events: Turtle Draw
  • Special Guest Lesson: Max's Turtle Draw App
  • Keyboard Events: Arrow Draw
  • Events with Parameters: ClickSpiral
  • Click and Smile
  • Click Kaleidoscope
  • EXTRA: Taking Screenshots on Mac and PC
  • S7P1 Programming Challenge Solution: Mirrored Smileys!
  • S7P2 Programming Challenge Solution: PingPong Calc 2.0
  • S7P3 Programming Challenge Solution: Click+Arrow Draw!

  • Where to Go Next
  • Dr. Payne's TEDx Talk on Coding and Cyber as the New Literacy
  • SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Rainbow Rosettes with Guest Star, Alex Payne!

  • April Turtle Gallery BONUS VIDEO: Roy G. Biv Spiral!!!
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Instructor

Bryson Payne

Dr. Bryson Payne is an award-winning cyber coach, author, TEDx speaker, college professor, and the founding Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at the University of North Georgia. He is a tenured professor of computer science at UNG, where he has taught aspiring coders and cyber professionals since 1998, including coaching UNG’s #1-in-the-nation 2019 & 2020 NSA Codebreaker Challenge cyber operations teams. Dr. Payne is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and he holds the elite SANS|GIAC GPEN, GRID, and GREM cybersecurity certifications. He has written over $48 Million in successful grants for workforce development, technology education, and cybersecurity, and he has trained over 60,000 students through his online courses on coding and ethical hacking.

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