Teach teens computing: Programming in Python

With the help of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, this course will guide you through basic programming concepts and teach you how to write Python programs that respond to a user's input, perform calculations, and solve problems.

Over the 4 weeks of the course you'll work on creating your own text-based adventure game. As you become more confident with your programming, you'll progress to making more of your own choices about how you'll meet a design brief.

Along the way you'll also experience other specific pedagogical approaches that you can use to help learners build their code comprehension skills, such as the Predict–Run–Investigate–Modify–Make (PRIMM) approach. You'll also learn how to tackle everything from the overall programming task to how to work on specific lines of code.

You'll cover:

• Basic programming concepts such as repetition and sequencing
• When and how to use a 'for' loop, an 'if' statement, a 'while' loop, and functions
• Creating your own program to solve a simple problem
• The basics of Python syntax
• How to interpret error messages
• Some pedagogical approaches for teaching programming