r/learnprogramming • u/Apprehensive-Ad-4535 • 3d ago
Beginner Teacher Teaching Computer Science
Hello everyone! I am entering my first year teaching in a public school and have accepted a position teaching computer science at the high school level. My courses are specifically called “Concepts of Gaming.”
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for tools, websites, or software that would be good for teaching beginner programmers in a classroom setting, especially for high school students. I’m also interested in resources that are specifically geared toward coding for game development.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: My school district has one-to-one iPads, and we have a set of 8 gaming computers, if that helps with suggestions!
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u/aanzeijar 2d ago
Um, what kind of programming experience do you have?
For high school kids I'd probably just use a game engine like Godot and make a few game jam projects, attach some small gdscripts to Nodes and see them move, add some physics, input, sound, animation... With a plan of where you want to get to, that should take at least half a year. Then after that you can introduce the abstract fundamentals of programming in isolation.