Liberty Lamp Computer Science Foundations

Liberty Lamp Learning Curriculum

Version 1.0.0 — self-contained first-party curriculum.

Required teaching, examples, practice, assignments, and assessment directions are included inside the course. No commercial textbook, subscription, or third-party curriculum site is required.

Course Structure

36 weekly lessons, five school-day activities per week. The course is organized into 9 instructional units.

Planned high-school credit: 1.0. Families remain responsible for applying their own state, umbrella, school, or transcript policy when awarding credit.

Scope and Sequence

1. Learn: Computational thinking
2. Practice: Computational thinking
3. Apply: Computational thinking
4. Demonstrate: Computational thinking
5. Learn: Algorithms
6. Practice: Algorithms
7. Apply: Algorithms
8. Demonstrate: Algorithms
9. Learn: Programming fundamentals
10. Practice: Programming fundamentals
11. Apply: Programming fundamentals
12. Demonstrate: Programming fundamentals
13. Learn: Variables and data types
14. Practice: Variables and data types
15. Apply: Variables and data types
16. Demonstrate: Variables and data types
17. Learn: Conditionals and loops
18. Practice: Conditionals and loops
19. Apply: Conditionals and loops
20. Demonstrate: Conditionals and loops
21. Learn: Functions and decomposition
22. Practice: Functions and decomposition
23. Apply: Functions and decomposition
24. Demonstrate: Functions and decomposition
25. Learn: Data and simple structures
26. Practice: Data and simple structures
27. Apply: Data and simple structures
28. Demonstrate: Data and simple structures
29. Learn: Web/data project
30. Practice: Web/data project
31. Apply: Web/data project
32. Demonstrate: Web/data project
33. Learn: Capstone program
34. Practice: Capstone program
35. Apply: Capstone program
36. Demonstrate: Capstone program

Curriculum Basis

Computer study is informed by K-12 computational-thinking, algorithms, programming, data, networks, impacts, and responsible-computing concepts; no CSTA alignment or endorsement is claimed.

Authorship/provenance: Liberty Lamp original AI-assisted instructional material with Liberty Lamp-directed structure, selection, arrangement, validation rules, and revisions. General facts, ideas, mathematical relationships, public-domain material, and Scripture references are not claimed as exclusive subject matter.