Dates: 28 Nov & 5 Dec, 2020 (Sat)

For Ages: 12 - 14 (Other slots available to ages 15-18)

Duration: 15 Hours

Time: 930am - 630pm (Lunch not provided. Students to be provided with lunch money to purchase meals from nearby food centres)

Location:

One Sims Lane (Opposite Aljunied MRT)

#03-08, Singapore 387355

TLDR;

• Course contents derived from battle hardened and weather tested experience.
• Certificate of completion upon finishing the bootcamp
• Classroom laptops provided. Simply turn up!
• Surgically focused sessions with max teacher-student ratio of 1:10
• Experienced teachers who have taught the course in schools and polytechnics.
• Strict adherance to safety measurement measures

RFA Coding Bootcamps offer students a safe starter kit to the world of coding with engaging, easy to digest sessions and battle-hardened content taught by experienced teachers.

Bootcamp Introduction

This course is designed for beginners in computer programming. Students will learn to write programmes using the Python programming language.

They will learn the following:

1. Algorithm design so that they can break down into steps what they want the computer code to achieve
2. Displaying information on the screen
3. Obtaining user input
4. Storing and using different data types
5. Structuring data for ease of use in code
6. Stepping through data to find information
7. Controlling programme flow
8. Simplifying the writing of code for repeatability, reusability, and maintainability
9. Solving bugs by investigating the cause of the problem
10. Writing elegant code that is simple and effective

Topics to be covered:

• Introduction to algorithms and coding
• Installing Python and the coding environment
• The print() statement, strings and numbers
• Variables and the input() statement
• Casting, strings, string concatenation
• Commenting code
• Booleans, operators, and conditionals
• Functions and modules
• Lists, arrays, and tuples
• Iterations
• Dictionaries

Learning Outcomes:

1. Translate algorithms into computer code
2. Plan, create, and explore software solutions to problems
3. Read, extract, and manipulate data
4. Organise computer code for reuse and maintainability
5. Use data structures for storing information
6. Learn techniques for debugging code

Useful for the following professions:

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Scientist
• Software Developer
• Web Developer
• Fintech
• Robotics
• Embedded Systems

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For enquiries email: enquiries@riverfortacademy.sg