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#Greenfoot lessons how to
#Greenfoot lessons code

There are another few videos to add but the primary content is complete and it now works as a complete course. If you’re not as concerned about OOP as I am you can skip the first video almost entirely. If you’re interested in taking a look please do, you’re welcome to use them for your lessons, self study or distance learning. I hope I’ve achieved that with this video set. Give it a bit of personality so that it’s not the world’s most boring video course.

#Greenfoot lessons code

Make it scripted so that there’s not lots of pausing for code or thinking.

Have purpose build graphics and animations to support dual coding and explanations.

As much as possible only use native functions (unless dealing with specific exam-board implementations) so the skills learned can be reused.

Explain WHY we were building things in certain ways, or why things were happening.

Must cover the content from the 2017+ spec (current) including everything asked for in the example questions given during training events.

I decided that videos had to have the following characteristics: I set out to make a comprehensive set of video lessons to replace this stuff and serve as a gold standard of what I wanted to be teaching when delivering OOP to KS4. Create 100 instances of an Actor subclass.

Even the ‘official’ resources are just some dude speaking over a screen recording. From your Greenfoot lessons, which of the following are examples ofactions that can be achieved using the while loop Mark for Review (1) Points Create 50 instances of the Fly class. Worse, most of the resources are out of date and based on the old specification, they’re also nearly all just screen recordings of Greenfoot which, let’s be honest with ourselves, looks like 90s Java Swing just had a good day.

#Greenfoot lessons how to

They didn’t teach anything other than how to answer a specific question in a certain style, if that changed (say, the exam board updated their spec) then the students just couldn’t achieve the same results and – worse – just had not idea why they were doing anything. So at some point I got really annoyed at all the Greenfoot resources out there in the world.