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Learn to Teach Java: Sequences, Primitive Types and Using Objects

This course is part of Learn to Teach Java Specialization

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.9

39 reviews

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week

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There are 5 modules in this course

Get started with the basics of Java, and prepare to teach others using the free, online interactive CS Awesome textbook. In this course for teachers we'll guide you both in learning Java concepts and skills but also in how to effectively teach those to your students.

This course will support you in teaching the Advanced Placement Computer Science A course or a similar introductory university-level programming course. We'll begin with simple instruction sequences, primitive types, and using objects, as covered in the APCS A Units 1 and 2. Each topic will begin by relating Java to block-based programming languages and then provide video overviews of CS Awesome content along with additional materials to supplement learning for your students. You'll engage with additional materials to support your teaching including "deep dive" classroom discussion questions and assessment overviews and options for your students.

Meet Dr. Simon and fellow learners in this class! Find out what you’ll be doing and learning.

What's included

2 videos2 readings1 discussion prompt

2 videos•Total 10 minutes
  • Welcome to the Learn to Teach Java Specialization•8 minutes
  • Welcome!•2 minutes
2 readings•Total 18 minutes
  • Make an Account on these Sites•15 minutes
  • Using Googledocs in this Course•3 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Meet your fellow learners!•10 minutes

Instructions are the basic building blocks for programs. The sentences in our "essay", if you will (not a popular analogy for students - but true). Using CS Awesome, we'll learn some basic instructions in Java -- which focus more on storing and manipulating data (numbers and words) than we did in most block-based programming languages.

What's included

6 videos3 readings3 assignments1 discussion prompt

6 videos•Total 55 minutes
  • From Block to Text: From Sprites to Data•13 minutes
  • From Block to Text: New Things•5 minutes
  • CS Awesome: A FREE, online, interactive textbook•8 minutes
  • Preview: Variables and Data Types•6 minutes
  • Preview: Expressions and Assignment Statements•14 minutes
  • Preview: Compound Assignment Operators, Casting, and Range•9 minutes
3 readings•Total 32 minutes
  • Variables store data for us (unplugged)•3 minutes
  • Optional: I need a hint with the challenge problem!•0 minutes
  • Want more practice?•29 minutes
3 assignments•Total 74 minutes
  • CS Awesome 1.3•24 minutes
  • CS Awesome 1.4•26 minutes
  • CS Awesome 1.5 & 1.6•24 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Where are variables used in software/technology you use?•10 minutes

This week we'll go deeper and engage with some resources to support your teaching. You'll explore some questions to use in classroom analysis discussions (Peer Instruction), learn how these concepts are commonly assessed, and prepare to help students who are having trouble with CS Awesome assessments. Finally, you can check your own Unit 1 Java and Java Teacher mastery on our end of Unit 1 quizzes.

What's included

7 videos2 readings2 assignments1 app item

7 videos•Total 52 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: What are they & How do I use them in my classroom?•5 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Asynchronously on Perusall•6 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide•12 minutes
  • How is my Java program run?•6 minutes
  • Unit 1 Leftovers•11 minutes
  • Assessment Options: General Java Assessment Types•8 minutes
  • Assessment Options•5 minutes
2 readings
  • Optional: Additional Resources on the Compile Process•0 minutes
  • Optional: Learn about the new AP Classroom Assessments•0 minutes
2 assignments•Total 36 minutes
  • Unit 1 Java Mastery Quiz•18 minutes
  • Unit 1 Teacher Mastery Quiz•18 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Variables, Data Types, Expressions, Operators, Casting•60 minutes

One of the key features of Java (as well as some other modern programming languages) is that it is "object-oriented" -- that we can design programs based around modeling of objects as a combination of data and methods (or actions) on that data. Using CS Awesome, we'll learn how to use already defined classes (classes are types of objects), to increase our power in solving problems in Java.

What's included

16 videos1 reading7 assignments

16 videos•Total 132 minutes
  • From Block to Text: Methods and Objects•7 minutes
  • From Block to Text: New Things with Methods and Objects•7 minutes
  • Preview: Objects - Instances of Classes Part 1•12 minutes
  • Preview: Objects - Instances of Classes Part 2•6 minutes
  • Preview: Creating and Initializing Objects: Constructors Part 1•10 minutes
  • Creating and Initializing Objects: Constructors Part 2•6 minutes
  • Constructor Programming Challenge and AP Practive•7 minutes
  • Overview 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5•1 minute
  • Preview: Calling Methods without Parameters•12 minutes
  • Preview: Calling Methods WITH Parameters•8 minutes
  • Preview: Calling Methods that Return Values•16 minutes
  • Preview: Strings•9 minutes
  • Preview: String Methods•8 minutes
  • String Programming Challenge: Pig Latin•6 minutes
  • Preview: Wrapper Classes - Integer and Double•5 minutes
  • Preview: Using the Math Class•11 minutes
1 reading
  • Optional: Extra Materials for 2.2 (including questions for in class)•0 minutes
7 assignments•Total 158 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.1•26 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.2•24 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.3•19 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.4•14 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.5•19 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.6 and 2.7•30 minutes
  • CS Awesome 2.8 and 2.9•26 minutes

This week we'll go deeper and engage with some resources to support your teaching. You'll explore some questions to use in classroom analysis discussions (Peer Instruction), learn how these concepts are commonly assessed, and prepare to help students who are having trouble with CS Awesome assessments. Finally, you can check your own Unit 2 Java and Java Teacher mastery on our end of Unit 2 quizzes.

What's included

4 videos2 assignments1 app item

4 videos•Total 41 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 1•13 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Teacher Guide Part 2•12 minutes
  • Assessment Options Part 1•6 minutes
  • Assessment Options: Part 2•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 58 minutes
  • Unit 2 Java Mastery Quiz•33 minutes
  • Unit 2 Teacher Mastery Quiz•25 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
  • Classroom Discussions: Using Objects•60 minutes

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HV
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Reviewed on Apr 23, 2020

First i will want say Thanks to my instructor "Beth Simon" because I learned every thing about Sequences, Primitive Types and Using Objects in java programming in simple way.

MK
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Reviewed on Oct 17, 2021

Great example were used in this course which makes easy to get the concept of the topic.

IK
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Reviewed on Apr 2, 2022

I like the course and the instructor teaches extremely well

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