Course Timeline

Sprint1

SDLC & Dev Tools

By the end of this onboarding sprint, students will be able to operate effectively within a modern software development environment and articulate how their work fits into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Students will set up and use core development tools (Linux, VSCode, GitHub), collaborate using industry-standard workflows, and iteratively build and document a personal portfolio site. Through hands-on practice with Markdown, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a Jekyll-based workflow, students will develop sustainable development habits—embracing iteration, version control, documentation, pair programming, and responsible AI usage—while prioritizing breadth of SDLC understanding over depth of implementation.

W0

Week 0

/1 Complete

SDLC Enablement

W1

Week 1

/1 Complete

Tools and Equipment Setup

W2

Week 2

/2 Complete

Agile Methodologies Practitioner

GitHub Pages Series

W3

Week 3

/1 Complete

JavaScript OOP Coder

1 assignment due

Sprint2

JavaScript Foundations & Student Teaching

A key focus of this course is to make Web Games using JavaScript. Understanding fundamentals like control structures, data types, input/output, operators, classes, methods and parameters, basic inheritance, and documentation practices are essentiial. Students will be teaching lessons on these topics to their peers. Each student will be responsible for a portion of the lesson, a popcorn hack, and homework. Students will be graded on their teaching, the popcorn hack, and the homework they assign. Students will also be graded on their participation in learning from their peers.

W4

Week 4

/3 Complete

Objectives in LxD

Code Runner - JavaScript

Lesson Outline Issue

W5

Week 5

/11 Complete

JSON

Iterations

Conditionals

Arrays

Mathematical Expressions

Booleans

Nested Conditionals

Data Abstraction

Strings

Classes & Methods

Variables and HTML DOM

W6

Week 6

/1 Complete

Teaching Weeks Issue

1 assignment due

W7

Week 7

/1 Complete

Game Runner Examples

Sprint3

Creating a game for N@tM

Part of the process of becoming technically proficient is going beyond fundamentals by taking on a project challenge while coding. A challenge with some vision, questions, AI research, and more allow amazing things to be accomplished. Our goal is to participate in N@tM with the other CS classes and other classes from the Electives Department. We should have a blog, progress in a game, and a series of lesson hacks to show off.

W8

Week 8

/3 Complete

Framework for Sprints

Sprint 3 - CSSE Objectives

RPG Hacks

W9

Week 9

/1 Complete

Game API

Sprint4

Planning, Tinkering, and OOP

Students, in trios, will work on Game and study OOP. There will be a lot of code, some Tech Talks, and some Teaching assignments provided to learn the code.

W13

Week 13

/4 Complete

Adventure Game Infograph

Sprint 4 - CSSE Objectives

OOP game levels, Part 2 coding

OOP game levels, Part 1 files

W14

Week 14

/5 Complete

Parallaxes/gravity

Blocks

Parallaxes/background

Backgrounds

Characters

Sprint5

Building a Help System

The Teacher will be providing topics. All teams will be building a help system covering the key topics in the platformer game. The task of forming a help system will help your team become expert in a topic and prepare you for final sprint. For now, don't try to code in the Platformer game, but try to make Jupyter Notebooks with help and hacks suggestions on your topic.

W17

Week 17

/13 Complete

Implenting enemies into the Game

Implenting Randomized Dialogues from Platformer to Adventure Game

Web APIs and Local Storage Documentation

Local Storage in JS

API's and how they are used

Game Over | Transitions | Leaderboard

Local Storage

Player | Animation | Collision

Backgrounds | Theme | Messages

Enemies | Collision

Platform | Elevated

Sprint 5 - CSSE Objectives

Game Help - Platformer

W18

Week 18

/1 Complete

OOP, Multiplayer

Sprint6

An RPG/Platformer game.

Trimester 2 concludes with students presenting their project at N@tM. Each person within "Student Teams" will have their own specialty within the student project. Students should be able to talk about design, make a plan, code, blog, and present features of their portion of the system.

W19

Week 19

/3 Complete

Sprint 6 - CSSE Objectives (Final)

Objects, Instance Data

Gaming Intro

W20

Week 20

/3 Complete

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

DOM Updates

Finite State Programming

Progress

Certificates

Open Coding Society

Certificate of Completion

Presented to

Has successfully completed the module:

as part of the course
.

Skill Focus

Skills Demonstrated

John Mortensen

Course Instructor

Open Coding Society