OUR CLASSES
Programming Fundamentals
The course will introduce young minds to logical and abstract thinking. Students will gain a lot of computer knowledge and skills. They will work in variety of different software creating graphics, animations. Students will be introduced to Scratch programming language. They will play logical games, solving puzzles. Students will learn to understand the nature and logic of communicating with a computer; many computer skills will be taught. Please, schedule a meeting in zoom prior to signing up for better placement of your child in our course.
Python Essentials
This course is for students interested in learning a programming language Python. The course will give an introduction to Computer Science, different programming paradigms with a focus on object-oriented programming. Students will have weekly assignments. They will be taught to use code comments as pseudocode, building skills of problem solving and logical thinking. Python is a great language to start learning computer programming. Please, schedule a meeting in zoom prior to signing up for better placement of your child in our course.
Interactive Generated Art with JavaScript
This course is for visual learners of programming. Languages of front-end web developer will be introduced. (HTML, SVG, CSS). In order to help students to design well-organized web pages with interactivity, libraries for styling and animation will be used. This course uses JavaScript language and students will be taught main concepts of the language but it is not a course on programming language JavaScript but rather an introduction to a web development with the use of JavaScript for interactivity and animations on the web pages. Students will be using a professional code editor. Please, schedule a meeting in zoom prior to signing up for better placement of your child in our course.
Web Animation and Scalable Vector Graphics
In this course beginners and more advanced students, age 9-12 can learn and apply their personal creative ideas for web animation. The program includes SVG (scalable vector graphics) language which allows children to expand their abstract thinking in working with math concepts visually. Animation for the web will be taught with the use of JavaScript library and will allow programming in the declarative style which is more comfortable conceptually for young students and beginners to programming. We will focus on tools that can empower personal imagination and ideas.
Digital Art and Animation
This course is lighter of programming and mostly introducing children to computer graphics and animation. Course is designed to help children to develop abstract thinking through building visuals. Student will be learning the concept of vector graphics (SVG). They will also learn raster graphics manipulation. Different software will be used. It is a fun course that brings out a lot of creativity and teachers a lot of computer skills. Please, schedule a meeting in zoom prior to signing up for better placement of your child in our course.