Learning to Code With TI Technology

Workshop Overview

This workshop is designed for educators interested in introducing coding to their students using TI graphing calculators. Building upon the lessons from TI’s 10 Minutes of Code, the workshop introduces the basics of coding principles including logic, selection statements and loops. A focus will be on coding topics which will reinforce student understanding of math and science curriculum concepts. Participants will be comfortable using TI-Basic and transferrable skills to move to the next stage in coding.

During this workshop, participants will learn to:

• Use the TI-Basic Program Editor to create and run programs
• Use simple editing features to insert and delete entries or lines of code
• Evaluate expressions and store them as variables
• Recognize programing features including conditions, relational operators, logical operators, and simple and compound conditions
• Perform the basic steps for debugging a simple program

By the end of the workshop, participants will be comfortable with:

• Starting a new program, writing a program to display text, and running the program
• Using variables to hold values and store results in those variables
• Showing the results of stored computations
• Writing statements using If and conditions
• Using compound conditions with the relational and the logical operators
• Determining errors in a program

Pricing and Technology Options

$200 — Workshop registration without TI technology package

$250 — Workshop registration including ONE of the following TI technology packages:

• TI-Nspire™ CX II graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software
• TI-Nspire™ CX II CAS graphing calculator and TI-Nspire™ CX Premium Teacher Software
• TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and TI-SmartView™ CE emulator software for the TI-84 Plus graphing family

Add the TI-Innovator™ Hub and TI-Innovator™ Rover to your product package for $120.

Team Discount: Register four educators for this workshop and the fifth attends free.

This workshop may be combined with workshops at the same location for an additional registration fee of $100 per day:

• Learning to Code With the TI-Innovator™ Hub (June 26)
• Implementing TI-Innovator™ Rover in the Mathematics Classroom (June 27)