Unit 2 - Beginning to Program

Overview

This unit focuses on basic programming structures. Students write simple programs, using variable assignment, repetition, and decision structures, and develop effective testing, validating, and documenting skills. They also explore roles of effective communicators and reflective thinkers when following a problem-solving model (e.g., user inputs a series of marks, each value is validated, the average is calculated, and a grade is assigned). So this unit introduced us to the beast known as Visual Studio. We learned to code in the language of C#, but I, as a trumpet player, prefer to play in the wrong key and decided to do the entire unit in F# instead. We also went a little more in depth into JavaScript, which really isn't as scary as it sounds. I learned one thing in this unit, and that is the fact that the entire universe is ruled by this little guy:
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