[Inpycon] PythonExpress for school students

[vijay kumar]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, October 2, 2016 5:09 pm, vijay kumar wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > During PyCon India 2016 open space, we discussed about conducting
> > workshops for school students. Teaching school students might be a bit
> > challenging as they have minimal knowledge on programming. Real time and
> > visual results will excite them to learn programming language and try
> > things on their own.
> >
> > We can conduct python workshops with the help of low cost single board
> > computers like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ExpEYES or something similar to it
> > which will be helpful in teaching and also make the students understand.
>
> I am not exactly sure, what age group we are targetting here.


I was thinking for kids >= 10 years.



> For
> introducing students to programming, the standard approaches are
>
>   1. Turtle Graphics (pioneered by MIT)
>   2. Karel, the Robot (pioneered by Stanford)
>
> The turtle module is available as part of the Python standard library.
>
> Karel is nice alternative to consider, because it allows people to write
> programs with loops, conditions, etc. without involving math! There are
> many implementations of karel for Python. The one available at
> http://reeborg.ca/ is my favourite. It is written using Brython and runs
> in your browser!
>
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
>
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-- 
Thanks,
Vijay
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