Involve Sweden

A project for teaching programming and computer science in primary and secondary education.

We have received a 15,000€ grant from Google CS4HS to start the project and will begin by trying it out on secondary schools in southern Sweden. The project will initially focus on introducing programming as a tool in mathematics courses, which is the direction that programming is likely to go in Swedens secondary education system.

All material will be open source.
We will try our hardest to make the content engaging and interesting for students.
We accept contributions.

Website

The website is served at lunduniversity.github.io/schoolprog/.

It is automatically built by Travis CI from the master branch whenever it is updated.

Getting started

To get started as fast as possible, we suggest you use the online Python 3 environment at repl.it.

We still have more work to do before this is usable as a part of a curriculum. But in the meantime, you can check out the cheatsheet and the exercises.

Hosting it locally

In case you want to help develop the material you might want to run the website locally to preview your changes before committing and pushing. If this doesn't work for you, create an issue or contact the maintainers so we can find and eliminate the bugs.

First make sure you have ruby and bundle installed.

Then install the necessary ruby packages:

make install-deps

Then start the development server with:

make serve

Problems

How do you make programming exercises for a mathematics course?
Which language should we write the material in?
- Swedish:
  - (+) We will use it on Swedish students, who probably want it in Swedish.
  - (-) Real programs are never written in Swedish.
  - (-) The course material will have limited reuse outside of Sweden.
- English:
  - (+) The English terminology is a de-facto standard that you need to know as a programmer.
  - (+) All the help resources available online is in English.

Resources

http://www.matteboken.se
http://cmc.education/workshops/python/
http://www.malinc.se/
http://www.lth.se/programmera/
Jeremia Mörling: Användningen av programmering för att lära ut ett matematiskt innehåll i gymnasieskolan, Göteborgs Universitet, 2011. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/29950/1/gupea_2077_29950_1.pdf

About learning programming

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

License

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