1. Python at Cypress Woods

2. About Cy-Woods Northwest of Houston Roughly 3,500 students Part of Cy-Fair ISD with 100,000+ students Cypress Woods High School

3. Computer Science at Cy-Woods 450 students 4 levels of classes 4 teachers 330 students in our intro class Cypress Woods High School

4. Why Python? Our class isn’t about Java, or Alice, or Scratch, or Jeroo, or Python It’s about solving problems – And any language can be used for that Python allows us to work with problems without as much overhead Cypress Woods High School

5. Why Python? English-y Less focus on syntax Still lets us target the AP topic list Cross platform Indentation Cypress Woods High School

6. Why not Java? We can teach basics first … which gets us to problem solving faster Cypress Woods High School

7. Basics First public class MyClass { int someVariable; public static void main(String[] args) { // Do something cool } Cypress Woods High School

8. Basics First # Do something cool Cypress Woods High School

9. Still have OOP class MyClass(object): def __init__(self): #constructor def printAList(self, aList): for x in aList: print x Cypress Woods High School

10. Leading up to Python Start in the 2 nd semester 1 st semester – Scratch – Alice – CS Unplugged Cypress Woods High School

11. Leading up to Python - Jeroo Cypress Woods High School

12. Leading up to Python - Jeroo Cypress Woods High School

13. Starting with “real” Python Cypress Woods High School

14. Pygame – Making Pictures Cypress Woods High School

15. Drawings pygame.draw.rect(……) pygame.draw.circle(……) pygame.draw.line(……)

16. Cypress Woods High School Methods def drawShape(target, x, y): pygame.draw.circle(target,(0,0,0),(x,y),5)

17. Animation while True: xPosition = + xSpeed yPosition = + ySpeed if xPosition >= 800 or xPosition <= 0: xSpeed = * if yPosition >= 600 or yPosition <= 0: ySpeed = * drawShape(screen, xPosition, yPosition)

18. Cypress Woods High School Classes

19. Cypress Woods High School Multiple Classes

20. Cypress Woods High School Lists & Loops

21. Cypress Woods High School Making a Game

22. ryan.nutt@cfisd.net www.apluscompsci.com/blog/ Cypress Woods High School