Animation/Game Programming in JavaScript

Good for 4th grade and up.  Bring your own laptops

Do you spend a lot of time on the Internet?

Ever wonder how people design all the websites you visit, like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and much more?

In this course, students will be given an introduction to the basics of HTML and CSS, two of the coding languages web designers use most often. Students will learn to manipulate text and images, and be able to create a basic web page by the end of the course.

Instructor: Sophie C, College student from Washington University in St. Louis

 Three Day Camp before Thanksgiving

–Programming For Games With JavaScript

Do your kids indulge in computer games?  

Why not motivate them to learn programming from playing games. JavaScript games are ideal for kids to play and learn how to code. We will start with making Mod’s for the most popular and creative game “MineCraft” with JavaScript. 

Outcome of this course:

•  Students will have FUN working on logic puzzles and games designs
• Also introduced are other popular languages like Java and Python for game designs, and basic concepts of computer science and applied mathematics.
• With strong motivations and creative ideas, students will excel easily at AP computer science in high school, and numerous competitive programming contests.

USACO (USA computer Olympiad) Camp in the winter

There are only four contests instead of the usual six 2014-2015 school year.

Jimmy will help you prepare for the contest

From August 2013 to August 2014, Jimmy’s USACO class has helped many students reach the Gold, Silver and Bronze levels of USACO. The parents and students say that Jimmy is the best USACO teacher. He is responsible, reliable, knowledgeable and good at teaching.

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Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qW_1_6O8Vvti9LFZznVbKF1kqUO2lMGDO1pU1F2a8fk/viewform

Bronze requirements: Fluency in JAVA or C++. You should be very familiar with conditional statements (if/else), loops (for/while), arrays, and strings. Knowledge in classes, object-oriented programming, comparators, iterators, etc. is preferred.

Silver requirements: Ability to consistently solve Bronze problems. The Silver material assumes knowledge of Bronze class material, such as knowing how to do BFS, DFS, and sorting, as well as know how to use standard data structures like arraylists, linked lists, stacks, queues, deques, heaps (priority queues), and binary search trees (TreeMap/map, TreeSet/set).

The purpose of the practice session (4-6 pm), shared between Bronze and Silver, is to provide a time when students from either classes can ask questions and receive help while coding. If you have previously taken Jimmy’s class and want extra time to practice and ask questions, it’s possible to sign up for just the practice session.

For Bronze students, the practice session is right after the lecture and will allow students to work on the exercises from that day and optional problems if they have finished. For Silver, the corresponding practice session is before the next day’s lecture. The Silver problems are more challenging, so this will allow students time to think about and work on problems at home before asking for help the next day.

For Silver students, the first practice session will be before the first lecture, so it will be a practice test consisting of Bronze problems to see what level you are at. There will also be an optional extra practice session on the last day, 8-10 pm, so Silver students can practice and ask questions for exercises from the last class and so all students can ask any last questions before the class ends.

Please try to attend all classes as there will be no make-ups. If you must miss a class, send me an email and I’ll send you the lecture notes for that day. Read over the lecture notes and try to do the exercises. If you have questions, you can ask for help at the next practice session.

The practice sessions are intended to allow you to have time to work on the problems while getting help. If you have time at home, you should still work on the problems at home. If you want to do well on USACO, you should practice a lot of problems.

Instructor Background:

Jimmy Zeng

As in past years, the USACO is planning several on-line programming contests this season (we will be running four contests instead of the usual six in order to give our staff time for upgrades in our infrastructure and training systems).  The schedule is as follows: Continue reading →