Teaching Lists & Arrays: Generalize Your Code in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.V.01 Teaching lists and arrays in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a software engineer storing every user account in one list instead of a separate variable per account. That kind of thinking is exactly what…
Teaching Evaluate & Refine: Build Better Software in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.PD.05 Teaching evaluate and refine software in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a UX researcher watching real users attempt a task on a new app to find where they get stuck. That kind of thinking…
Teaching Illustrating Program Design: Flowcharts & Pseudocode in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.PD.04 Teaching flowcharts and pseudocode in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a software engineer sketching a flowchart to get team agreement on a feature's logic before writing production code. That kind of thinking is exactly…
Teaching Team Coding in Action: Build an Event-Based Program in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.PD.03 Teaching event based programming team in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a game development team building and testing player-input handlers for collisions and scoring. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's…
Teaching Reading the Fine Print: Evaluate Software Licenses in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.PD.02 Teaching software licensing schemes in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a software engineer choosing which open source libraries a project can legally import. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's grades 9-10…
Teaching Building Software Solutions in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.PD.01 Teaching software development process in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a UX designer interviewing several types of hospital staff before designing a scheduling app. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's grades 9-10 (level 1) computer…
Teaching Build a Computational Artifact: Data In, Insight Out in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.M.02 Teaching computational artifacts data in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a student council organizing and processing survey data into an activity-interest chart. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's grades 9-10…
Teaching Decompose to Build: From Problem to Procedures in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.M.01 Teaching decompose problems procedures in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a software team extracting a repeated calculation into a single, reusable procedure instead of copying code across screens. That kind of thinking is…
Teaching Justify the Code: Control Structures & Efficiency in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.C.01 Teaching control structures efficiency in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a mobile app developer choosing a memory-lean loop structure to avoid draining a phone's battery. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's…
Teaching Algorithms in Action: Build a Real Prototype in Grades 9-10 (Level 1): Oklahoma Standard L1.AP.A.01 Teaching algorithms real world problems in grades 9-10 (level 1) does not have to be complicated. Picture a logistics team prototyping a shortest-path route for delivery drivers. That kind of thinking is exactly what Oklahoma's grades 9-10 (level 1)…
