[Microbit-Python] Hello from Sunnyvale, CA!

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 19.02.2016 21:25, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm in California for an education conference at Google. This gave me 11
> hours to kill on the flight over. As a result I finished off and revised
> some tutorials for teachers - to be added to the project documentation.
> 
> I WOULD LOVE FEEDBACK!

Pretty impressive list of lesson !

The only nit I could find is the use of "from micropython import *".
Wouldn't it be better to teach kids to use e.g.

# First get the goodies you need for your program:
from micropython import display, Image
...

> The tutorials are for beginners, miss a lot of things out (which you can
> discover via the "real" API docs anyway) and my intention is simply to
> provide a series of easy-to-understand Python related resources for
> teachers who may otherwise be feeling nervous. In an ideal world,
> teachers would adopt and adapt these resources into their own lesson
> plans and schemes-of-work.
> 
> Feedback most welcome...
> 
> The PR is here.
> 
> https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython/pull/212
> 
> (I think it'd be good to fix silly mistakes on this branch and merge
> ASAP so the "real" docs are updated for teachers to see. Subsequent
> additions, modifications and corrections can go in their own PRs).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> N.

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