Demonstrate Python coding skills using online resource
Log on and head to www.codecombat.com using Google Chrome
Work through the game considering the following points:
- Formal notation
- builds an understanding of the importance of syntax in programming.
- Calling methods
- familiarises students with the syntax of object-oriented method calls.
- Parameters
- trains how to pass parameters to functions.
- Strings
- teaches students about string notation and passing strings as parameters.
- Loops
- develops the abstraction of designing short programs with loops.
