What Will You Learn?
- Multi-Year Progressive Curriculum
- Join our academy and start climbing the Coder's Ladder®! Similar to martial arts belt system, the ladder defines programming skills from beginner to advanced levels. Achieving Level 10 means mastering all fundamentals of software development.
- With each level, students gain proficiency in more advanced programming concepts and learn how to design and build more complex projects. Levels are taught in age and experience appropriate development environments, from Scratch to professional languages, such as Python or Java.
- Level 1 of the Coder’s Ladder® is the entry point for Elementary School age students 8 to 11 years old. It is designed for beginner students new to coding or students with prior coding experience who need a more structured program to strengthen their understanding and skill application of fundamental programming concepts.
- The focus of Level 1 is to teach students the core Computer Science concepts. Students apply these concepts by building games and projects using the drag and drop environment, Scratch. Level 1 gets students passionate about coding as they experience coding as creative, fun, and doable!
- The Level 1 curriculum teaches coding as a sequence of instructions, core programming concepts (such as Variables, Loops, Conditionals, and Functions), and basic game development concepts (such as Key-based Controls and Event Handling). Students build various projects, including thrilling maze games, interactive arcade games (such as a car racing game), art and animated stories, and quiz programs. In addition, students learn problem-solving and practice design, testing, and debugging skills.
- Level 1 graduates are familiar with programming terms and confident in their understanding of fundamental coding concepts. Most importantly, students can independently build simple games and projects using the online platform, Scratch.