| Definitely! To start with: Brian Harvey's magnum opus, "The Beauty and Joy of Computing", which was used for CS10 at Berkeley, and is "intended for non-CS majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level". https://snap.berkeley.edu/bjc The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) is an introductory computer science curriculum using Snap!, developed at the University of California, Berkeley and Education Development Center, Inc., intended for non-CS majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level. It is a College Board-endorsed AP CS Principles course. It is offered as CS10 at Berkeley. The curriculum BJC is available online at https://bjc.edc.org Resources:
You can find information about BJC, teacher preparation, and additional resources at https://bjc.berkeley.edu And here is the Snap! reference manual: https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/help/SnapManual.pdf I’ve evangelized about Snap! frequently on Hacker News over the years, and these links have more details and links to other Snap! extensions and projects (of which there are many amazing ones): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36755852 You can discover more of the things people are doing with Snap! in the Snap!Con2023 conference schedule: https://www.snapcon.org/conferences/2023/schedule/events And also the videos of the conference talk and other Snap! presentations: https://www.youtube.com/@SnapCloud/videos The embedded programming, iot, robotics, embroidery (TurtleStitch), and other tangible computing projects are especially engaging and inspirational for kids. |