Veteran teacher, CS Master's Student, first-time CS teacher: (1) what is going to be different, and (2) what do you wish you would have known?

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GameMaker Studio

I've had a lot of success in MS with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade, which is particularly great if your kids have Office 365 accounts. You can pair it with PiskelApp for an interesting unit in pixel art. GameMaker is awesome once you have covered basics, if you are in a country where the constant downloads don't make things difficult.

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Brackets

I've made heavy use of freeware to do my web design units, mostly using Brackets to do HTML/CSS/JS portfolio websites. The students do those as their second unit and go back often to update them. You can host them locally or on Github.

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