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by hackinthebochs 4891 days ago
I'm sorry but there is very little you can teach them about programming that will stick with 1-2 hours a week of effort. Assuming the kids aren't self-selected (unusually bright, inherent interest in programming), you are very limited in what details you can expect them to remember from week to week. You're better off giving them a few hands-on tasks that are graphical and mostly self contained. Building a simple 2D game in stages over the year can work. Building a world with rules like gravity and momentum, and then building a simple collision detector might be the highlight of the course.