Variables

This is a list of all of the articles relating to the concept of variables.

Go Tips

Published on: Sat, Nov 14, 2015

Section: Lessons  

What You are Going to Learn

This lesson is a little different. We want to show you some tips, that you can use to make programming just a little bit simpler.

Further Repetition

Published on: Fri, Nov 6, 2015

Section: Lessons  

What You are Going to Learn

In the last lesson we looked at how computers repeat a sequence of instructions. Something that programmers more commonly call a loop.

Now we want to look at a extension of the loop pattern to show you a quick way to loop a fixed number of times.

Lesson Plan for Repetition

Published on: Mon, Apr 20, 2015

Section: Lesson Plans  

Lesson Objective

To learn what loops are and the pattern for repetition in Go programs

Repetition and Loops

Published on: Sun, Apr 5, 2015

Section: Teacher Notes  

Objective

To introduce the concept of repetition and show how this can be used in computer programs.

To learn that repetition is more commonly called a loop.

To learn the different types of loops; to introduce the pattern for a loop that repeats while a condition is true.

The class will practice loops by adapting the previous timesquestion program.

Creating these program will require the class to use the text editor (either Atom or LiteIDE) to create and save the source code file and the terminal/command line to run their program.

Repetition

Published on: Fri, Apr 3, 2015

Section: Lessons  

What You are Going to Learn

In the last two lessons we have looked at how computers programs make decisions.

Now we want to investigate how and why we want computers to repeat small parts of a computer program.

We will introduce the pattern for repetition or loops as they are more commonly known.