What We Learn

All SHEEP high school classes have an official syllabus. Feel free to contact me for an official copy.

Coding & Programming has 4 major units. Every week has a participation score (6 pts, or about 20% of your grade) and a homework score (15 pts, about 40%), and every quarter we have a large 100 point project (about 40% of your total grade).

Unit 1: Intro to Coding & Web Development

• Begin with coding skills
• Project: Build a real website for an imaginary business

Unit 2: Intro to Programming & JavaScript

• Learn the basics of JavaScript
• Project: Holiday reading and code puzzles

Unit 3: Text Games

• Learn about data structures
• Project: Make a card game

Unit 4: Drawing & Interactive Animation

• Play with interactive drawing and animation through the gold standard Processing library, p5.js
• Remake a classic, fully interactive animated video game (which one is a secret, but I can tell you if you really need to know)