We will cover everything that is required by College Board for the AP Computer Science A Exam. We will have Topic Questions throughout the series (which will either be used as an engagement activity in a session, or, if another activity is used, they will be assigned as homeowork), Progress Checks (think of them as unit tests), Labs (essentially coding projects), and Practice Exams.

(Note: lesson planning for this series is in progress, so this'll be updated over the next few weeks as the series nears.) This is a beginner Python programming class. We're going to be starting from the ground up, and hopefully by the end you'll know how to make some small games with Pygame. No experience is needed. Materials necessary: - you are going to need an IDE (a place where you can run code) by the fourth session or so. Session 1: - basic data types & variables - print() and input() - data conversion & concatenation Session 2: - string indexing & slicing - booleans & if/else statements Session 3: - lists & tuples - while loops Session 4: - while loops (cont.) - for loops - mini-project 1 introduction Session 5: - office hours to work on projects

Each week we will cover different fundamental computer science concepts and we will also have time to cover anything you need particular help with.