Programming Course - 4 Weeks
Tue, 20 Aug
|EPIC Westport
Join Web Developer and all round programming genius for EPIC’s Free 4- Week Programming Course, sponsored by TechStep.
Time & Location
20 Aug 2024, 3:30 pm – 10 Sept 2024, 4:30 pm
EPIC Westport, 10A Lyndhurst Street, Westport 7825, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Here’s what you’ll learn:
Weeks 1 & 2:
● Variables and Input/Output:
● Getting user input and storing into a variable.
● Displaying information using our variables
● Functions
● Reusing code and using variables to manipulate functions
● If statements and simple boolean
● Using IF statements to control the flow of our program and using
Variables/Input to manipulate our program and outputs. simple Boolean.
● Order of Operations and simple maths.
● Mathematical Order of operations (bemdas/bodmas/bedmas) - brackets,
exponents, multiply/division, add/subtract - very important for usage in
algorithms and if statements
● Create a Guess the number game
● Loops - for/while/do - how program flow works
● Code being executed multiple times to perform operations either fast or
continuously
● Graphics
● Displaying (canvas) graphics
● Create Bouncing ball or (old-school) line screen saver
● Using variables, graphics, loops, if statements to make a bouncing ball or
line screen-saver
Weeks 3 and 4:
● Arrays
● Advanced storing variables that can be iterated over with loops
● Advanced variables, objects, and classes:
● What is an object and what is a class? How to use them and store them
in variables.
● Basic HTML with Javascript manipulation:
● Learn to use and configure HTML elements on the fly.
● Make a small webpage that stores and loads data