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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
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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
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Why Python?
• English-y• Less focus on syntax• Still lets us target the AP topic list• Cross platform• Indentation
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Why not Java?
• We can teach basics first• … which gets us to problem solving faster
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Basics First
public class MyClass {int someVariable;public static void main(String[] args) {
// Do something cool}
}
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Basics First
# Do something cool
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Still have OOP
class MyClass(object):def __init__(self):
#constructordef printAList(self, aList):
for x in aList:print x
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Leading up to Python
• Start in the 2nd semester• 1st semester– Scratch– Alice– CS Unplugged
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Leading up to Python - Jeroo
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Leading up to Python - Jeroo
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Starting with “real” Python
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Pygame – Making Pictures
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Drawingspygame.draw.rect(……)pygame.draw.circle(……)pygame.draw.line(……)
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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)
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Classes
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Multiple Classes
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Lists & Loops
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Making a Game
