Date open: See Oncourse Assignments
Date due: See Oncourse Assignments
Number of points: 40

Learning Objectives

In this assignment, you will learn about the fundamental structures of programming:

1. Sequence: instructions are arranged in a sequence, and are executed one after another.
2. Iteration (repetition):
   • Repeating instructions a fixed number of times
   • Repeating instructions until a goal is achieved
3. Selection or making decisions:
   • Doing something if a condition is true
   • Doing something if a condition is true, otherwise doing something else.

Instructions

Do the activities in the Hour of Code: write your first computer program. You will have some video instruction and 20 puzzles to solve. To solve the puzzles, you drag and drop instruction blocks to create programs that control an angry bird and a zombie as they navigate through mazes.

As you go through the Hour of Code, take screenshots showing that you successfully solved puzzles #5, 9, 13, 17, and 20.

• See How to take a screenshot, with instructions for several operating systems, and/or additional screenshot instructions for Windows 8.
  • Please save the screenshots as PNG files, with the .png file extension.
• Here is an example screenshot showing that I solved #2.
• When you submit in Oncourse Assignments, attach these screenshots as evidence that you completed the puzzles.
  • Either attach them as individual image files; or combine them into a single word processor document, export as PDF, and attach the PDF file.
• If you’re unable to solve all of the puzzles, then attach screenshots for the highest numbered puzzle you were able to complete in each group:
  • Sequences of instructions: #1–5
  • Repeat N times: #6–9
  • Repeat until: #10–13
  • If: #14–17
  • If/else: #18–20

Optional: On completing all of the puzzles, you earn a certificate from the Hour of Code. You may personalize your certificate and attach it (in addition to your screenshots, not as a replacement) in Oncourse Assignments, but it doesn’t really count for anything. You may share it on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and bask in the admiration of your friends.

Turning in This Assignment

In Oncourse Assignments, attach your five screenshots and (optionally) certificate.

Grading Rubric

Partial credit will be earned for partial completion of each section.