python at cypress woods

Python at Cypress Woods

About Cy-Woods

• Northwest of Houston• Roughly 3,500 students• Part of Cy-Fair ISD with 100,000+ students

Cypress Woods High School

Computer Science at Cy-Woods

• 450 students• 4 levels of classes• 4 teachers • 330 students in our intro class


Why Python?

• Our class isn’t about Java, or Alice, or Scratch, or Jeroo, or Python

• It’s about solving problems– And any language can be used for that

• Python allows us to work with problems without as much overhead


Why Python?

• English-y• Less focus on syntax• Still lets us target the AP topic list• Cross platform• Indentation


Why not Java?

• We can teach basics first• … which gets us to problem solving faster


Basics Firstpublic class MyClass {int someVariable;public static void main(String[] args) {

// Do something cool}

}


Basics First# Do something cool


Still have OOPclass MyClass(object):def __init__(self):

#constructordef printAList(self, aList):

for x in aList:print x


Leading up to Python

• Start in the 2nd semester• 1st semester– Scratch– Alice– CS Unplugged


Leading up to Python - Jeroo


Starting with “real” Python


Pygame – Making Pictures


Drawingspygame.draw.rect(……)pygame.draw.circle(……)pygame.draw.line(……)


Methods

def drawShape(target, x, y):pygame.draw.circle(target,(0,0,0),

(x,y),5)

Animation

while True:xPosition = xPosition + xSpeedyPosition = yPosition + ySpeed

if xPosition >= 800 or xPosition <= 0:xSpeed = xSpeed * -1

if yPosition >= 600 or yPosition <= 0:ySpeed = ySpeed * -1

drawShape(screen, xPosition, yPosition)


Classes


Multiple Classes


Lists & Loops


Making a Game

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