The lab provides the machines; you provide the thinking. The list is short.
Every class
- Your journal or a notebook — yes, paper. Planning a program away from the keyboard is a professional habit, not a school one, and Code Journal explains what goes in it
- Something to write with
- Your school login details, memorised. Class time spent on password resets is class time gone
Sometimes, and I will say when
- Headphones or earbuds for days with video or audio work — one ear only when a partner is talking.
- Your own device is welcome if you have set it up following Setting Up Python, but it is never required. Everything in this course runs on the lab machines and on free software.
- For interview days: your questions written out, and a way to take notes that does not put a screen between you and the person talking.
The phone rule
Phones live in bags during build time. The device in front of you is already a computer; the one in your pocket is a distraction machine wearing the same costume. Filming or photographing anyone’s screen or work without their okay breaks Our Classroom Norms, and that includes a client’s paperwork.
Forgot something? Borrow from the front desk, return it at the bell, and nobody will make it a thing. If equipment or connectivity at home is ever a genuine barrier, tell me quietly — see Getting Help — and we will sort it out.