Unit 1: Meet Greenfoot

The orientation unit. Students meet scenarios, worlds and actors, learn what a class and an object actually are, and write their first behavior inside act(). Nothing here assumes any prior coding at all.

6 lessons
about 3 hours
Unit 1 of 6

Lessons in this unit

1.1 Scenarios, Worlds, and Actors · 25 min
1.2 The Greenfoot Window · 20 min
1.3 Classes and Objects · 30 min
1.4 Calling a Method · 30 min
1.5 Parameters and Return Values · 30 min
1.6 The act() Method · 35 min

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