Lesson library / Public curriculum
These public lesson pages show the educational rhythm and checkpoints behind School of Code projects. They are useful outlines, not private classroom administration or promises about a published schedule.
Scratch & Game Design
Scratch & Game Design / Events and Commands
A robot hamster receives five commands, but nobody tells it when to begin. Is the command list broken, or is the missing event the real problem?
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Coordinates and Movement
A giant pigeon is chasing your character across Calgary. The computer cannot see the chase the way a person does. How does it know where the player is, where the pigeon is, or whether they have collided?
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Loops and Repetition
A snowball attack works once. Copying it fifty times works too, but nobody wants to repair fifty copies when the timing changes. What should repeat, and what should stop it?
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Conditions and Decisions
The Quiz of Questionable Knowledge accepts 'moon cheese' as an answer. Should it celebrate, object politely, or ask another question? The program needs rules it can actually test.
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Variables and State
A space pet insists it was fed, but the program has forgotten. What information must the game remember, when should it change, and when should a new run reset it?
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Sensing and Collision
The floor looks extremely lava-like, but the computer does not care about appearances. What exactly counts as touching danger, and how often should the game check?
Open lessonScratch & Game Design / Debugging
The game works unless the player wins while being caught near the right edge. Random repairs make it stranger. Can we reproduce the bug and make one useful test?
Open lessonIntroductory Robotics
Robotics / Input and Output
A delivery robot receives 'go around the chair' as one command. A person understands; the robot does not. How can we replace vague intent with a sequence that can be tested on paper or in simulation?
Open lessonRobotics / Sensors
A machine reports 347. Is that bright, close, tilted, pressed, or meaningless? A sensor reading becomes useful only when we know what was measured and how the program interprets it.
Open lessonRobotics / Feedback
A patrol robot follows its route perfectly until somebody moves a box. Should it continue, stop forever, or use a sensor reading to choose a recovery action?
Open lessonThe lesson introduces the idea.
The guided project develops it. Computer Lab projects let it change form. Parent explanations make the hidden work observable without reducing the class to a list of software features.
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