Coding & Making with 3-D Printing and Laser Cutting
An Athenian 2022–23 Winter After-School Computer Science Class
Short link to this page: bit.ly/db-tas-21
In this class, for up to ten beginning and experienced programmers and makers in grades five and up, you’ll develop your programming and making skills, while being exposed to the big ideas of computer science.
We’ll take a look on the first day and find out what your skill level is and what you want to learn.
You can develop these skills:
- Coding
- Electronics
- using a micro:bit and the Python programming language and the Microsoft MakeCode or MicroBlocks block languages
- using the micro:bit with a motor or sensor
- Laser Cutting and Engraving
- using a vector drawing program to design your creations
- operating the laser machine
- 3D Printing
- using a modeling program to design your creations
- slicing your model
- operating the 3D printers
Dave Briccetti is a highly skilled programmer and experienced computer science teacher. Watch him teach on his YouTube channel.
Bring your own laptop computer running macOS, Windows, or Linux, or use one provided by the school.
2023-01-18
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Speaking of Python
Let’s do some Python programming in replit.
print('Hello, world!')
for num in range(5):
print(num)
name = input('Your name? ')
print(f'Hi, {name}!')
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