Technology Department

    Terry Young, Resource Teacher
    Phone - 240.740.2448

    Staff

    Janice Bailey, Teacher
    Mark Estep, Teacher
    David Hill, Teacher
    Ishan Khetarpal, Teacher
    Kevin Lee, Teacher
    Denita Weber, Teacher

     

    News

    Fundamentals of Computer Science (9th Grade SMCS) covers a number of topics including programming. While we teach Python 3.4 from the basics, it is useful to already have some degree of introductory programming background. If you are new to programming, you are recommended to take a free online introductory course. As we use Python 3.4 it is recommended that the course use version 3.x, but a version 2.x course is fine. There are a variety of free online courses available but some that have been looked at include
    Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python (only the first 9 topics (through 9 Exam Statistics) are necessary. )
    Google: https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
    Harvard: https://www.edx.org/course/using-python-research-harvardx-ph526x#!
    University of Michigan: https://www.coursera.org/learn/python