Introduction to Programming - Week 1 and 2 Summary
What is programming?
Commands are the smallest building blocks of your program. A single intruction to the computer to perform an action.
A program is a collection of these individual ccommands put together in the right order to solve a problem, complete a task, or maybe interact with the user.
The collection of commands you write for your program is called source code.
2D coordinate system
* Computer screens are made up of tiny dots
* Each one of these dots is called pixels
* In p5.js we create an area of pixels on a webpage we can draw to: this is called the canvas
* A canvas needs a width and height in pixels
How you will be assessed?
* New topic every two weeks
* This is your first topic (development environment)
* Each topic will be divided into a series of lessons
* In a lesson you will learn by watching videos
* The game keeps a running total of your score which increases as you progress but fixed grades are taken at two points in the term. Each of these grades counts as 25 percent of your final course mark. At the start of topic six, your rookie grade will be frozen and uploaded to the platform.
The course has two major assessments each worth 50% of your grade:
* Coursework 1: this consists of two activities that you do on the Coursera platform and which will be assessed half way through course (week 10 and week 12).
* Coursework 2: this also consists of two activities that you do on the Coursera platform and which will be assessed in the end the course in week 22.
There are also several activities that are graded but have 0% weight. That means that they will not count towards your final grade, but they are a key part of your learning and you need to do them.
This is a detailed breakdown of all of the marks.
Commands are the smallest building blocks of your program. A single intruction to the computer to perform an action.
A program is a collection of these individual ccommands put together in the right order to solve a problem, complete a task, or maybe interact with the user.
The collection of commands you write for your program is called source code.
2D coordinate system
* Computer screens are made up of tiny dots
* Each one of these dots is called pixels
* In p5.js we create an area of pixels on a webpage we can draw to: this is called the canvas
* A canvas needs a width and height in pixels
How you will be assessed?
* New topic every two weeks
* This is your first topic (development environment)
* Each topic will be divided into a series of lessons
* In a lesson you will learn by watching videos
* The game keeps a running total of your score which increases as you progress but fixed grades are taken at two points in the term. Each of these grades counts as 25 percent of your final course mark. At the start of topic six, your rookie grade will be frozen and uploaded to the platform.
The course has two major assessments each worth 50% of your grade:
* Coursework 1: this consists of two activities that you do on the Coursera platform and which will be assessed half way through course (week 10 and week 12).
* Coursework 2: this also consists of two activities that you do on the Coursera platform and which will be assessed in the end the course in week 22.
There are also several activities that are graded but have 0% weight. That means that they will not count towards your final grade, but they are a key part of your learning and you need to do them.
This is a detailed breakdown of all of the marks.
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