RaspberryPiFoundation: Teach teens computing: Object-oriented Programming in Python

Over the following four weeks, you will:

• Explore using objects in programming, and understand the difference between a function and an object.
• Develop your understanding of how writing your own class allows you to combine functions and data.
• Demonstrate extending other people's classes, including inheritance and polymorphism.
• Produce a module to apply your learning of object oriented programming.
• Collaborate by sharing your code with other people.

You will cover:

• Introduce the principles of object-oriented programming in Python.
• Understand the difference between a function and an object.
• Create objects, functions, methods, and classes.
• Write a text-based adventure game.
• Extending other people's classes, including inheritance and polymorphism.
• Share your code with other learners, and see theirs.
• Develop ideas for using object-oriented programming in the classroom.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for people who are already familiar with Python programming and want to learn a different programming paradigm, understand and use existing libraries more effectively, or create code which is useful to other people.

It will be particularly useful for educators and students of a post-16 qualification.