Intro CS

Code.org: The course starts by using some puzzles in the form of Angry Bird games to teach basic programming skills during the first two days of school. 

Lightbot.com: Lightbot puzzles follow after Angry Birds and are used to teach students the concepts of sequencing, procedures, and loops during the first week of school. 

Scratch: MIT's Scratch language allow students to use a simple, block-based language to build games and other projects for two weeks. The level of difficulty of these projects are around 8th-9th grade level. 

Jeroo: This language features a subset of Java to introduce students to text-based programming with methods and pre-defined classes in a graphical programming environment. Use of variables is limited thus keeping programming tasks simple. The course features Jeroo for one month. 

Greenfoot: This tool allows students to learn full java using a graphical interface. Projects center around animals and their movements. The course features Greenfoot and BlueJ for two months. 

BlueJ: The course concludes with students doing projects in java using the BlueJ Integrated Development Environment. The course features Greenfoot and BlueJ for two months.