Can a Middle School Student With Some Experience Use These Courses?

It's always great to see students who've had some opportunities to work with electronics and coding prior to considering using our courses. Typically if a middle school student is mature and motivated, they will be able to complete the first 18 lessons of any of our courses. Those lessons are foundational in with breadboard circuits, writing basic Python code, and working with the Raspberry Pi. They are likely to go fairly smoothly for the student. Once they get to the next set of 18 though, the complexity increases.

Our courses were designed for older high school students and adults so how well they work for anyone younger ends up depending on the individual student. The big sticking points tend to be reading comprehension skills (the course is fairly dense) and attention to detail. Especially once the complexity of the concepts and projects ramps up. Very small errors will cause a circuit or program not to work. So precision is required as is some frustration tolerance as we all make mistakes and it's a matter of finding them so the project will work as planned.

You can see view sample lessons and we'd specifically recommend taking a look at the Level A and Level B lesson samples as those are the ones included in the Raspberry Pi + Python Standard Course.