BOSS: Coding Workshops On-line

Summer Session July 24th - August 4th

About

BOSS (Business of Student Success) is teaming up with Faithworks Compton’s: Algorithm & Flow coding staff to offer this exciting on-line workshop. This is a course for curious coders and young game developers (ages 7-17) who want to level up from being just a player and get exposed to some developer fundamentals. This course will introduce core coding concepts and powerful tools. We will use the PlayCanvas platform to create 3D content. We will also explore Scratch (visual programing), Codepen (HTML/CSS/JS) and the Java language syntax. All of our development platforms are web-based tools. So, there are no complicated installations to perform. It doesn’t matter if you are a Windows or macOS user. As long as you’ve got a modern version of the Google Chrome browser running on your system, you have what you need to start this journey.

Syllabus

Youth Group (ages 7-17)

Our youngest students will create 4 projects with Scratch, the popular visual development platform from MIT. They will also be introduced to a 3D game dev tool called Playcanvas to learn a few modern gamer techniques. Every working computer scientist knows how to navigate a UNIX-based operating system. It’s the text-base interface displayed in every Hollywood hacker movie! Our coders will experience this environment while hacking together Java code and testing the software revision system ca, GitHub.

Week One

Week TWO

Fish Game

Flappy Bird

Solar System

Instructors

Kwesi Davis

Kwesi Davis graduated from the Ivy League institution Brown University with a BA in Electrical Engineering and earned a Masters in Film & Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked as a software developer in the video game, commercial effects and feature animation industries. He currently writes software for animators at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Chris Jimenez

Before coming to Algorithm & Flow, Chris Jimenez studied computer science at California State University Monterey. Previously, he worked with KIPP SoCal Public Schools administering an after-school program where he helped maintain a creative, nurturing and safe learning environment.