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This lesson will prepare students mentally for the coding exercises that they will encounter over the length of this course. In small teams, students will use physical activity to program their classmates to step carefully from place to place until a goal is achieved.
By using physical movement to program their classmates, students will run into issues and emotions similar to what they will feel when they begin coding on a computer. Encountering those stresses in a playful and open environment will help to alleviate intensity and allow students to practice necessary skills before they run into problems on their own.
Students will be able to:- Define a list of steps (algorithm) to get a friend from their starting position to their goal.- Translate a list of steps into a series of physical actions.- Identify and fix errors in the execution of an algorithm.
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