Joan Lindsay Orr

Applied CS Skills

Applied CS Skills is a free online course by Google which teaches CS skills. The course consists of twelve lessons which each comprise a teaching/preparation section and a workshop which guides the students as they create code to solve algorithmic problems involving core CS concepts such as stacks, binary trees and graphs.

I wrote and launched the initial site which required sudent registration and was built on top of Google's open-source Course Builder platform, and rand from 2017 to 2019. I then converted the site to a fully static "evergreen" site without registration, which launched in 2020.

Technologies

  1. Course Builder
  2. jQuery
  3. MDL
  4. GraphQL

Gallery of screenshots

The Site Home Page
The Course Landing Page
A Sample Lesson
The Lesson Completion Button
The Course Landing Page Showing Student Progress
Selecting a Curriculum