ScriptEd Curriculum 2015-2016
ScriptEd Curriculum by ScriptEd, Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum.
Please find ScriptEd's suggested curriculum for Year 1 and Advanced Students below. If you are looking for additional resources, please visit our Resources page.
Year 1
While completing the units below, the students are working towards becoming extremely qualified at all the skills found in the ScriptEd Foundations Rubric.
| Unit | Sessions | Topics/Skills | Project 1 | Project 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0. ScriptEd | 1 | Routines and Expectations | N/A | N/A |
| 1. Intro to CS | 1 | Computational thinking | N/A | N/A |
| 2. HTML (Introduction) | 5 | HTML page structure, Basic tags | NYT Remix | Images |
| 3. CSS (Introduction) | 4 | Wireframing, Basic Styling | CSS ScriptEd Garden | About Who? |
| 4. HTML, CSS & jQuery | 2-3 | link tag, script tag, header, media query, jQuery events | General Assembly Dash Project #2 | N/A |
| Optional Unit, Scratch | 4 | Algorithms, variables, conditionals | Ol Mc'Donald MadLibs | N/A |
| 5. JavaScript 1.1 | 4 | Variables, functions | Tiny Turtle | Calculator |
| 6. JavaScript 1.2 | 5 | Strings, Conditionals, Comments | MadLibs | Grading App |
| IDE Tutorial: Cloud9 | 1 | Dashboard, Workspace, Sharing, GitHub intergration | Sign Up for Cloud 9 | N/A |
| 7. Command line | 2 | CRUD operations | File Structure | Terminus |
| 8. Git & GitHub | 1 | Git, Github, status, clone,commit, push |
Mr. Potato Head | N/A |
| 9. HTML (Advanced) | 3 | Linking pages, a tag, forms | Portfolio Page | N/A |
| 10. HTML/CSS (Advanced) | 3 | Div, id, class, float, transitions & animations | GA Dash Project #4 | CSS Zen Garden |
| 11. Bootstrap | 3 | CDN, wireframing, grid system | Fictional Character Website | N/A |
| 12. jQuery | 4 | Selectors, Attributes, Handlers | The jQuery Site | Facebook Wall |
| 13. JavaScript 2.1 | 5 | Arrays, Loops | 99 Bottles | Color Changer |
| 14. JavaScript 2.2 | 4 | Objects (hashes) | Around the World | Address Book |
Advanced Course
Students in the advanced course will be completing their final projects using Cloud9 IDE. They will also need to push all of their code to GitHub.
| Unit | Sessions | Skills | Project | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Scavenger Hunt | 1-2 | Variables, Functions, Strings, Conditionals, Loops, jQuery | Scavenger hunt of many short programs (<10 lines each) | N/A |
| 2. Rock, Paper, Scissors | 2 | Math.random, jQuery, conditionals | A fully functional game (user vs. bot) | N/A |
| 3. Website ReBranding | 2 | Wireframing, Bootstrap, Pair programming | Redesign a company homepage | N/A |
| 4. SoundCloud API Project | 1-2 | APIs | A site that displays relevant song information based by genre | SoundCloud |
| 4a. Foursquare API Project | 1-2 | APIs | A site that displays pizza places near the user | Foursquare |
| 5. Instagram API Project | 2-3 | APIs | A site that searches instagram for images tagged with key words entered by the user | |
| 6. Giphy API | 2-3 | APIs | A site that searches Giphy for images tagged with key words entered by the user | Giphy |
| 7.jQuery Battle | 1 | jQuery, Collision Detection, Key Binding | Game that uses keybindings to move character | N/A |
| 8. Insult Generator | 3 | APIs, JSON, Client/Server Interaction | Insult Generating voice game | Custom API made on mockable.io |
| 9. SoundMood | 2-3 | APIs, JSON, Client/Server Interaction | Music streaming app that plays songs based on user emotion | SoundCloud |
| 10.Portfolio | 1-2 | GitHub Pages | Personal Portfolio page | N/A |
| 11.Entrepreneurialism | N/A | Project management, Pair Programming, Self-Motivation | A fully functional WebApp | N/A |