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Computational Thinking with JavaScript 3:Organise & Interact

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Computational Thinking with JavaScript 3:Organise & Interact

This course is part of Computational Thinking with JavaScript Specialization

Instructors: Quintin Cutts

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Organise and structure larger, interactive JavaScript programs.
Understand how HTML and JavaScript combine to support web interaction.
Reason about state, events, and behaviour in interactive systems.

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Web Applications

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Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

In this third course in the Computational Thinking with JavaScript Specialization, you apply your developing skills to the context of the web. You will explore how JavaScript and HTML work together to support the web pages and interactive experiences that are part of everyday life.

The focus of the course is on organisation and interaction. You will learn how interactive programs are structured, how they respond to user actions, and how behaviour changes over time. As your programs grow larger, you will increasingly focus on managing complexity through careful organisation, abstraction, and clear structure. You will also move beyond the sheltered programming environment used earlier in the sequence, working with external tools, libraries, and environments. Throughout, the computational thinking frameworks introduced in the earlier courses are reinforced, with particular attention paid to maintaining a coherent understanding across multiple representations, technologies, and interacting components.

In this module, you begin to connect JavaScript programs with the wider web by introducing HTML. The focus is on understanding how computational processes interact with external structures, and how programs can be organised to work with content beyond the code itself. You will explore how this combination supports clearer organisation and enables new kinds of interaction.

What's included

5 videos8 readings4 assignments

5 videosTotal 124 minutes

Introduction4 minutes
Exploring the basics of HTML29 minutes
Changing the content of the page from JavaScript22 minutes
Using HTML 5 commands for drawing with JavaScript32 minutes
Seeing how to interact using HTML and SVG37 minutes

8 readingsTotal 215 minutes

Welcome to Course 310 minutes
Javascript, HTML and the web: the basics10 minutes
Connecting JavaScript to the HTML10 minutes
A series of practice exercises60 minutes
Transferring your learning: graphics10 minutes
Practice exercises on creating graphics60 minutes
How interaction works in a web app10 minutes
Practise adding interaction to a web app45 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 70 minutes

Checking your HTML understanding15 minutes
Using JavaScript to update your webpage30 minutes
Using an HTML 5 library with Javascript15 minutes
Test your knowledge of HTML-5 interaction10 minutes

This module focuses on interaction and behaviour in web‑based programs. You will explore how programs respond to user actions, how state is managed and updated, and how interaction leads to change over time. The emphasis is on reasoning about dynamic behaviour and understanding how interactive systems are structured computationally.

What's included

2 videos9 readings2 assignments1 peer review2 discussion prompts

2 videosTotal 79 minutes

Adding input elements into our web app42 minutes
Objects following paths and object creation/deletion - PPT created37 minutes

9 readingsTotal 455 minutes

Extending the interactivity of our programs10 minutes
Reviewing what we saw and learned in the video30 minutes
Practice exercises - extending the simulation60 minutes
Reflecting on your capabilities10 minutes
Extending what we can animate10 minutes
Practice exercises - checking understanding and extending the animation75 minutes
Making your own thing - guided!10 minutes
Exercise: building your own application240 minutes
Reviewing progress so far10 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

Quick knowledge check30 minutes
Knowledge check on the extended animation techniques30 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 90 minutes

Learning from and commenting on your peers' applications90 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 40 minutes

Asking questions / getting help on building your application10 minutes
What have you learned from your own work and others?30 minutes

In this module, you turn your attention to scale. You will examine how programs grow in size and complexity, and how careful organisation, abstraction, and structure support clarity and manageability. The focus is on thinking computationally about larger systems and maintaining understanding as complexity increases.

What's included

2 videos5 readings3 assignments2 discussion prompts2 ungraded labs

2 videosTotal 6 minutes

Favourite Coding Environments1 minute
Music with JavaScript4 minutes

5 readingsTotal 70 minutes

Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Coding Environments10 minutes
Using the Tone.js Library10 minutes
Time in JavaScript Programs10 minutes
About websockets30 minutes
Node.js for server code10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes

Coding Environments30 minutes
Tone.js and Time-Dependent Code30 minutes
Callbacks and Websockets30 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes

What have you chosen?10 minutes
Software and Timing10 minutes

2 ungraded labsTotal 120 minutes

Turtle Drawing in VS Code60 minutes
Play a Simple Tune60 minutes

In the final module, you bring together ideas from across the course by building and refining a more substantial software project. You will integrate interaction, structure, and behaviour, and reflect on how computational thinking supports the design, organisation, and communication of larger programs. The emphasis is on consolidation and reflection on learning.

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3 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

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University of Glasgow

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This is the third course in the Computational Thinking with JavaScript specialisation. If you have no prior programming experience, then you should take the first two courses in the specialisation before taking this one.

Because it is so hard to quantify "programming experience", it is hard to answer this question. If you have undertaken some programming before, and know that you can solve at least small programming challenges using simple imperative constructs, like variables, expressions, loops and so on, but you would like to learn about HTML and JavaScript, then you may be able to jump directly into this course. However, we would recommend that you take the early two courses if you are unsure, in order to be confident about your skill development.

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