Curriculum/Timeline for Learners Group 📚🎓

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Curriculum/Timeline for Learners Group 📚🎓 #118

Closed Realtin closed 7 years ago

Realtin commented 7 years ago

First Week after Workshop: getting to know everyone / revisiting the Workshop Project after that: going through Clojure for the Brave and True

vsmart commented 7 years ago

[Week 0] Intro: Get up and running with Nightcode/Clojure)
[Week 1] Basic animation: (e.g. a ball moving, heart beating sketch from quil.info) based on frame count
[Week 2] User interaction (using mouse-x, mouse-y, mouse-click, draw, bonus: erase)
[Weeks 3] State with fun-mode (a counter increment)
[Week 4-5] Using user interaction + state together (e.g. simple snake)
[Week 6-?] Adding enemies (more complex state)

ellenkoenig commented 7 years ago

I like the proposed curriculum from @vsmart . I would just suggest to make it clear that the curriculum is optional, so if someone has a specific thing in mind they want to do, they can do that instead.

I would not recommend starting with "Brave and True" in the second week already, from my experience, it is pretty dry and not very motivating.

lislis commented 7 years ago

I would insert an extra week before [1] as I find that getting the computational aspects of animation are quite difficult to understand without prior programming experience (based on my teaching experience, so maybe others' is different?) I liked the Rustbridge tutorial of 'just' randomly colored squares image from rustbridge which would introduce some quil commands and then we can animate stuff that we drew.

jellea commented 7 years ago

@lislis the idea was to dodge collections at first and go for some simple drawings and make things move as soon as possible. I think the problem with animation is that it can get mathematical too quick, so we'll have to make an exercise which avoid this.

Here's some great inspiration/ideas http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

vsmart commented 7 years ago

I used the input from this issue to make the following repo: https://github.com/clojurebridge-berlin/study-group-curriculum

In that repo, there is an open issue for each week of curriculum that needs help. Please head over there, check it out and maybe make a quil sketch to help out 💪 ✨ Thank you! ❤️

vsmart commented 7 years ago

study group curriculum lives here: https://github.com/clojurebridge-berlin/study-group-curriculum