Pencil Code: Activites for Students

All the activities below are designed to be printed nicely on a legal or letter-sized pages (tested with backgrounds and without headers on Chrome). They are designed for classroom use or use at home.

• Classrooms often work best with physical printouts. We have found that learning coding using a non-computer medium can help students learn faster.
• Large diverse events work well with the Pencil Code Gym, which has a choice of fully-online activities that do not require printouts.
• If planning in advance, the Pencil Code Book can provide the best of both worlds: a choice of 100 activities, but readable in a friendly paperback form.

Set Up

• How to Make a Pencil Code Account

Beginner

• Introduction to Drawing
• Measuring Distances and Angles
• Measuring Arcs and Circles
• Drawing a Flower
• Drawing a Car
• Drawing your Initials
• World Cup Challenge

Intermediate

• Drawing a stick figure
• Geometry: Exploring Exterior Angles
• A Turtle Remote Control. (Add mouse clicks, variables, functions.)
• Interactivity: Navigating a Racetrack (Add custom track, a custom car, time, 2nd turtle, menu.)
• Interactive Fiction: Creating an Adventure Game
• Coding in HTML: Exploring Three Languages on The Web
• Algorithms: What is an Algorithm?
• Algorithms: Drawing Polygons
• Algorithms: Drawing Stars

Advanced

• Probability: Charting Randomness
• Patterns: An Experiment in Chaos
• Algorithms: Searching Sorted Data
• Functions and Fractals: Exploring Recursion
• Basic Data Structures: Organizing Data with Arrays and Objects
• Visual Proof: Proving the Pythagorean Theorem with Sprites
• Coding Outside the Computer Science Classroom
• Classes and Sprites: Exploring Subclassing and Animation

Contribute Your Own

Edit and add your own activities at activity.pencilcode.net/edit/worksheet/.