[Edu-sig] Need resource for beginners

[Jurgis Pralgauskis]

Sounds nice! :)

And what were the most difficult parts for participants (where they were
getting stuck mostly):
Python syntax, turtle commands, geometry, ...?

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Tamim Shahriar <tamim.shahriar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So, the workshop went fine yesterday. Let me give you a brief on what we
> did.
>
> There were 30 computers in the lab and total 43 participants. Couple of
> students brought their own laptop. The participants were all girls and they
> study in grade 9, 10 and 11.
>
> We started at 9:30 AM. The computers had Linux mint and as most of them
> were not familiar with Linux, we helped them to get familiar with it
> throughout the day. The felt like hackers in English movies, when they were
> entering various commands in the terminal.
>
> First one and half hour, we spent with hour of code (from code.org). I
> also showed them a clip of Frozen movie, to give them idea from where the
> snowflakes thing came from. Later I found that most of them already watched
> the movie.
>
> Then we went for a break and had snacks. After the break, we did another
> hour of code. But this time, it was with Python. They created a chat bot.
> As we had Internet in every computer, we used this :
> https://groklearning.com/hoc-2014/.
>
> Then we had lunch break. When we returned from the break, we worked with
> the snowflakes thing again, but this time, with Python. We used this
> resource : http://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/snowflake-turtle/. Then
> they built different geometric shapes with turtle package.
>
> At 5:30 PM we announced closing. Then Bristy Sikder a former IOI bronze
> medalist of Bangladesh who studies at MIT now, talked to them. It was
> inspiring. We also answered lots of questions the girls asked throughout
> the day. Then we had evening snacks.
>
> At 7:00 PM the closing ceremony was held. The girls were looking so happy
> and excited. We had some guests to inspire them.
>
> I thank Code it, girl! to give me the opportunity to conduct the workshop.
> Tahmid Rafi, Ashiqur Rahman Mushfiq and Rashedul Hasan Shoikat were there
> with me as trainers in the workshop. The food was awesome and thanks to
> Hafiza Khatun Memorial Trust for sponsoring.
>
> I also thank the group members of this group. Your shared resources were
> useful.
>
> I am attaching some photos.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tamim.
>



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