short programming projects for kids

[Duncan Booth]

bobdc wrote:

> I will be teaching an "Introduction to Programming" class to some
> middle school aged children and will be using Python, obviously. Does
> anyone have suggestions for simple little programs to create and
> analyze with them after I get past turtle graphics?
> 
> Turtle graphics will be plenty for the first session, and I will leave
> time to ask them what they'd like to do in later sessions, but I was
> curious if anyone on the list has experience picking pedagogical
> programming examples appropriate for twelve-year-olds' attention spans.
> thanks,
> 
Have you looked at http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/ ?