Code in Python

Age: 10 – 12 years

Experience Level: Beginner

An ideal course for kids to begin to explore code in a fun and engaging manner.

• Engage students with gamified introduction to coding basics:
• Enjoy building a sequences of instructions to systematically achieve a goal
• Explore conditionals to repeat a command until a condition is met.
• Learn about loops to execute commands as long as you want
• Start with block code and then move to Python code
• Build your own simple game or puzzle.
• We recommend 16 hours of 1:1 Tutoring or a full in-person camp week to complete this level.

Once a level has been completed, your child will progress to the next level recommended by their instructor.

Age: + 13 years

Experience Level: Teen Beginner

Learning Objectives:

A great way for students to develop their Python skills and start to work with functions.

• Develop skills using Python to meet a challenge or solve a problem
• Work through series of specially designed engaging challenges
• Work with if/else statements to execute series commands as a function of the situation.
• Learn to define functions (a block of code with a name) and then call them when you need them.
• Students choose from multiple projects including drawings, races, quizzes, and games
• We recommend 16 hours of 1:1 Tutoring or a full in-person camp week to complete this level.

Once a level has been completed, your child will progress to the next level recommended by their instructor.

Age: + 13 years

Experience Level: Teen Advanced

Designed to develop student’s Python proficiency and to explore object-oriented programming. (16 hours)

• Combine use of code with algorithmic thinking
• Explore and develop object-oriented programming skills
• Work with Python turtle library to help determine object position, color, movement and more
• Practice skills to efficiently identify errors and debug code.
• Work through a multitude of coding projects
• Apply learning in cybersecurity or game design
• We recommend 16 hours of 1:1 Tutoring or a full in-person camp week to complete this level.

Once a level has been completed, your child will progress to the next level recommended by their instructor.

Age: + 13 years

Experience Level: Teen Advanced

***Online Only – 8 hours

Exhibit proficiency of core Python concepts to apply them to a de novo coding project

• Work on a project with your tutor and demonstrate your mastery of 6 core coding concepts to gain TechSpark’s Python Certification
• Variables & Mathematical Operators
• Conditional Statements
• While Loops
• For Loops
• Functions
• Arrays and Lists

Once this level has been completed, your child will receive a recommendation for further independent or mentored projects.

Age: + 13 years

Experience Level: Teen Advanced

***Online Only – 16 hours

Develop Python mastery by working with one of today’s most exciting Python applications (16 hours)

Choose from a series of Python applications across a wide array of exciting fields in today’s digital world:

• Data science
• Game Development
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning:
• Web Development
• Web scraping
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Cybersecurity
• Computer Vision
• Data visualization
• Financial analysis

Once this level has been completed, your child will receive a recommendation for further independent or mentored projects.