I’m very much teaching the same thing - an eight week introduction to JS (after 6 weeks of HTML/CSS).
My approach was to lead with one week of unplugged programming just introducing the concepts of CS. Then introducing the fundamentals of variables loops etc using a block based language.
The following week we transition to JS doing one week of fundamentals and after that moving on the DOM and events.
So far I think it has worked out pretty well. A key part is to work both bottom up and top down at the same time until things eventually click.
My approach was to lead with one week of unplugged programming just introducing the concepts of CS. Then introducing the fundamentals of variables loops etc using a block based language.
The following week we transition to JS doing one week of fundamentals and after that moving on the DOM and events.
So far I think it has worked out pretty well. A key part is to work both bottom up and top down at the same time until things eventually click.