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Practice: Using Variables

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
A quick check of understanding is the focus in this short online quiz. Questions ask users to check out a short two- to four- line program and answer a question about the value of a variable. Get five questions correct in row to pass to...
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Challenge: Bucktooth Bunny

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Practice creating and using variables by creating variables for the bunny's eyes and teeth in this JavaScript task. Use the slider above the number to see the power of using variables in your code. 
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Challenge: Mickey Mouse Ears

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
My, what big ears you have! Novice JavaScript programmers adjust Mickey's ears to be proportional with his face and any changes to it. The key is to use variable expressions so that the values used are dependent upon the variable that...
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Challenge: H for Hopper

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
An "H" is just three rectangles when you are trying to draw them on a computer screen. After watching the previous Intro to Drawing video this online programing activity guides young coders to draw the letter "H" on the screen. Help and...
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Project: Ad Design

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Let your young programmers' creativity and programming knowledge shine with this culminating activity. Coders put together everything they know about using text commands, drawing, and animation to create a unique ad. This activity could...
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Welcome to the Computer Science Platform

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
You don't need to know how to code in order to teach your students! Show them learning is a lifelong skill by learning along with them. Take this activity for example; the code is on the left, and the result is on the right. Can you...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Writing a Simple Calculator Program With Java Script

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a good first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a basic calculator program that you can run in your Web browser.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Paragraph Stats: Writing a Java Script Program to 'Measure' Text

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a challenging first-time programming project. You'll learn how to use JavaScript to create a simple program to analyze one or more paragraphs of text. Your program will count sentences, words and letters, and report the resulting...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Write a Java Script Binary/decimal/hexadecimal Converter

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a challenging first computer science project. You'll learn the basics of how digital devices can represent numbers using only 0's and 1's, and you'll write a JavaScript program to convert numbers between binary, decimal and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Artificial Intelligence Teaching a Computer to Play Tic Tac Toe

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a more challenging JavaScript project. You will have to figure out a way to translate game strategy into a computer algorithm. Directions will show you how to create a working Tic-Tac-Toe board on a webpage. Just by showing the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project

For Students 6th - 8th
This project is a fun way to try your hand at programming and expand your knowledge of web design. You will learn how to create some simple animations, and perform tests and make measurements to help you create more realistic-looking...
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Apple

Apple Learning Interchange: Quicktime Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides comprehensive tutorials on how to use QuickTime. Divided into three sections ? basic, interactive and delivery ? the tutorials show you how it?s done.
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Other

Creative Software: Java Script Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive tutorial of the JavaScript scripting language.
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Other

Museum of Web Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
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Other

Hot Scripts: Java Script

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents an internet directory of resources for JavaScript programmers.
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Savvas Learning

Concepts of Program Debugging

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter from an online book on the concepts of C++ program debugging. Includes steps in debugging a system, with illustration, common debugging situations, with illustration, debugging tools, and the debugging environment.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computer Programming: House Class Demo

For Students 9th - 10th
A class demo to help students visualize and learn how to program drawings using JavaScript.
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Other

Lissa: Explains It All

For Students 9th - 10th
Lissa explains html in a way kids can understand. She covers: the basics, css, frames, tables, color, javascript and more.
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Other

Color Maker

For Students 9th - 10th
This very useful site allows you to change the color and background patterns of a web page, and then copy the HTML code to your own site. Includes a tutorial, links to other web pages about color design, and links to a TableMaker and a...
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Other

Computers for Creativity: Building With Code

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Using the Khan Academy Computer Science platform, sixth graders at Los Altos School District build using code. They create art by writing programs in a JavaScript implementation of the Processing language called Processing.js.
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Other

Yahoo!: Java Script Developer Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Yahoo's developer center site for JavaScript programmers.
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Other

Web developer.com: How To. . .

For Students 9th - 10th
Answers common "how to" questions related to building a website. Extensive topic coverage on HTML, Java, multimedia, servers and server tools, VRML, intranet, JavaScript, and CGI.
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Other

Java Script Programming: Debugging

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3 part article on JavaScript programming debugging from Webdeveloper.com. Includes information on what a "bug" is, a syntax error, a logic error, and other tips on avoiding and troubleshooting programming errors.
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Other

Elated Communications: Java Script

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to JavaScript-the most popular browser scripting language, and some clever tips & tricks.