Learning how to program... but what's the best way?

[Daniel Yoo]

Hans Nowak <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote:

: The problem is, I don't expect my student to swoon over "hello world", or to 
: get excited about doing basic mathemathical computations.  Nor will standard 
: computer science stuff about bits, bytes, hexadecimal numbers etc be appealing. 
: Sure, those concepts are important, and will be dealt with in due time, but 
: what I'm looking for right now is a way to capture people's interest-- to do 
: something funny, or cool, or useful even for someone who doesn't know programming.

Hi Hans,

You may be interested in the Livewires project:

    http://livewires.org.uk/python

They have some PDF worksheets on learning Python through games, and
they look very interesting: one of the last projects is programming
Spacewar!


Best of wishes to you!