In this lesson, students will be introduced to Karel the dog and commands Karel uses to navigate and interact with Karel’s world. This introductory lesson can be used as a review of concepts introduced in Karel Adventures modules.
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In this lesson, students learn more about Karel and Karel’s world. Students learn about walls/shelves in Karel’s world, the directions Karel can face, and how to identify a location in Karel’s world using rows and columns. Students will also begin solving more difficult Karel problems and situations.
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In this lesson, students will learn how they can create their own commands for Karel by calling and defining functions. Functions allow programmers to create and reuse new commands that make code more readable and scalable.
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In this lesson, students learn in more detail about functions and how to use functions to break down their programs into smaller pieces. Students will also learn about using the main function and commenting code to make it easier to understand.
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In this lesson, students learn how to use for loops in their programs. The for loop allows students to repeat a specific part of code a fixed number of times.
For loops are written like this:
for(let i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
// Code to be repeated 4 times
}Students will be able to:
In this lesson, students learn about the conditional statement “if”. Code within an “if statement” will only execute IF the condition is true.
if (frontIsClear()) {
// Code to be executed only if front is clear
}Students will be able to:
In this lesson, students learn about an additional control structure, if/else statements. If/else statements let students do one thing if a condition is true, and something else otherwise.
if/else statements are written like this:
if (frontIsClear()) {
// code to execute if front is clear
} else {
// code to execute otherwise
}
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In this lesson, students are introduced a new type of loop: while loops. While loops allow Karel to repeat code while a certain condition is true. While loops allow students to create general solutions to problems that will work on multiple Karel worlds, rather than just one.
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In this lesson, students will synthesize all of the skills and concepts learned in the Karel module to solve increasingly challenging Karel puzzles.
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In this lesson, students review the module’s content with a 15 question Unit Quiz.
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