Printable warm-up pages for CMU CS Academy’s Exploring Programming. One spreadsheet drives every page. Pick a warm-up, a unit, or a whole course, then download a print-ready PDF or an editable Word file. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to make.

The tools

Build & download → Pick your scope, adjust writing-line height and text size, then download PDF or DOCX. Start here.

Warm-up editor → Edit vocabulary, Part 1, Part 2, and figures side by side with a live preview, then export an updated content.csv.

Live preview → Point it at a published Google Sheet and it re-renders on a timer while you author. Useful on a second monitor.

How the pages are built

Each warm-up is exactly two pages. Page one carries the name/date header, the START HERE strip — a pace check, two “I can…” self-assessments, a reflection prompt, and a rotating check-in question — and the vocabulary terms with writing lines. Page two is Part 1, which everyone does, and Part 2, a stretch section for students who finish early. A one-page cover opens each unit with its “I can…” checklist.

Pages are designed to work on paper: no color dependence, no dates baked in, and nothing that needs a screen to make sense.

Bring your own content

The site ships with a sample content.csv, but it is meant to run on your spreadsheet. In Google Sheets choose File ▸ Share ▸ Publish to web ▸ Comma-separated values (.csv), then either paste that URL into the Source box on the build page or set SHEET_CSV_URL near the top of workbook-site.html in your own fork. You can also load a CSV straight off your machine with Upload….

Columns are course, unit, warmup_no, page, section, seq, type, content, hint, figure. Figures are written as short specs — circle 200,200,60,gray or star 200,200,80,5 — on the CMU canvas convention, where the origin sits top-left and y counts down.

Full documentation, the Python build tools, and the source live in the GitHub repository.

An independent project by a classroom teacher. Not affiliated with, authored by, or endorsed by Carnegie Mellon University or CMU CS Academy. Materials here are shared under CC BY-NC 4.0; the code is MIT licensed.