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Sprint1

SDLC & Dev Tools

By the end of this onboarding sprint, students will be able to operate effectively within a modern software development environment and articulate how their work fits into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Students will set up and use core development tools (Linux, VSCode, GitHub), collaborate using industry-standard workflows, and iteratively build and document a personal portfolio site. Through hands-on practice with Markdown, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a Jekyll-based workflow, students will develop sustainable development habits—embracing iteration, version control, documentation, pair programming, and responsible AI usage—while prioritizing breadth of SDLC understanding over depth of implementation.

Week 0

/1 Complete

SDLC Enablement

Week 1

/1 Complete

Tools and Equipment Setup

Week 2

/3 Complete

About Page (about.md)

Agile Methodologies Practitioner

GitHub Pages (index.md)

Week 3

/1 Complete

JavaScript OOP Coder

1 assignment due

Sprint2

JavaScript Foundations & Student Teaching

A key focus of this course is to make Web Games using JavaScript. Understanding fundamentals like control structures, data types, input/output, operators, classes, methods and parameters, basic inheritance, and documentation practices are essentiial. Students will be teaching lessons on these topics to their peers. Each student will be responsible for a portion of the lesson, a popcorn hack, and homework. Students will be graded on their teaching, the popcorn hack, and the homework they assign. Students will also be graded on their participation in learning from their peers.

Week 4

/4 Complete

Code Runner - Examples

Objectives in Technical Learning

Code Runner - JavaScript

Lesson Planning

Week 5

/12 Complete

Variables

Strings

Classes and Methods

Mathematical Expressions

Booleans

JSON and JavaScript Objects

Nested Conditionals

Iterations

Data Abstraction!

Arrays

Conditionals

Functions

Week 6

/1 Complete

Teaching Weeks Issue

1 assignment due

Week 7

/1 Complete

Likert Review

Sprint3

Creating a game for N@tM

Part of the process of becoming technically proficient is going beyond fundamentals by taking on a project challenge while coding. A challenge with some vision, questions, AI research, and more allow amazing things to be accomplished. Our goal is to participate in N@tM with the other CS classes and other classes from the Electives Department. We should have a blog, progress in a game, and a series of lesson hacks to show off.

Week 8

/3 Complete

Framework for Sprints

Sprint 3 - CSSE Objectives

RPG Hacks

Sprint4

Ideating, Tinkering, Building and OOP

Explore the OCS GameEngine—a platform designed to make learning computer science both fun and accesible. You will work collaboratively, build games, and apply key programming concepts in a creative, team-based environment.

W13

Week 13

/2 Complete

Sprint 4 - CSSE Objectives

OCS GameEngine Guide

1 assignment due

W14

Week 14

/8 Complete

Variables and HTML DOM

GameEngine Essentials Guide

Characters

Backgrounds

Enemy Death

Enemy Collision

DOM Updates

Objects, Instance Data

1 assignment due

W15

Week 15

/8 Complete

Game API

Randomized Dialogues

Local Storage in JS

Gravity

Blocks

Transitions Screens

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

Finite State Programming

W16

Week 16

/1 Complete

GameEngine Essentials Summative Assessment

1 assignment due

Sprint5

Advanced Features

The Teacher will be providing topics such as local storage, leaderboard APIs, websockets, platformer and more to add to the game. Students will be expected to learn these topics and implement them in their game.

W17

Week 17

/12 Complete

Game-in-game

Implementing Enemies

Web APIs and Local Storage Documentation

API's and how they are used

Game Over | Transitions | Leaderboard

Local Storage

Player | Animation | Collision

Backgrounds | Theme | Messages

Enemies | Collision

Platform | Elevated

Sprint 5 - CSSE Objectives

Game Help - Platformer

W18

Week 18

/1 Complete

OOP, Multiplayer

Sprint6

An RPG/Platformer game.

Trimester 2 concludes with students presenting their project at N@tM. Each person within "Student Teams" will have their own specialty within the student project. Students should be able to talk about design, make a plan, code, blog, and present features of their portion of the system.

W19

Week 19

/1 Complete

Sprint 6 - CSSE Objectives (Final)

W25

Week 25

/1 Complete

Capstone Projects

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SDLC & Dev Tools

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Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

JavaScript Foundations & Student Teaching

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Creating a game for N@tM

Week 8

Ideating, Tinkering, Building and OOP

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16

Advanced Features

Week 17

Week 18

An RPG/Platformer game.

Week 19

Week 25

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