Students learn to create websites using HTML and CSS inside Code.org’s Web Lab environment. Throughout the unit, students consider questions of privacy and ownership on the internet as they develop their own personal websites.

Students learn fundamental programming constructs and practices in the JavaScript programming language while developing animations and games in Code.org’s Game Lab environment. Students end the unit by designing their own animations and games.

Students further develop their programming skills while more deeply exploring the role of hardware platforms in computing. By the end of the unit, students should be able to design and build a physical computing device that integrates hardware inputs and outputs with software. This unit builds on the skills and understandings from the Animations and Games unit with more sophisticated programming constructs, such as arrays, for-loops, and parameters, as well as a deeper understanding of the types of input and output that can be used in computing. Students should leave the unit feeling equipped to use physical computing to solve problems in fun and innovative ways.

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