[Inpycon] PythonExpress for school students

[vijay kumar]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:18 PM, praveen patil <praveenkumar103 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3 Oct 2016 11:27, "Jaysinh Shukla" <jaysinhp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 02 October 2016 05:09 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.
> >>
> >> Since the cost of these single board computers are less, its affordable
> for students to buy on their own to pursue it further.
> >>
> >> I would request everyone to share your thoughts on the same and help in
> building the workshop topics and content for school students.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Vijay
> >>
> >>
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> > Respected Community,
> >
> >     I believe the idea of teaching school students is great. R.Pi is
> chip and mostly available in India, but, we should also consider the option
> of BBC Micro bit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/
> 4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nSm9WnQ/the-bbc-micro-bit). Though it is not available in
> India, we can request the Government of India to help us in this.
> >     On the other side I believe we can also plan for the specially
> designed tutorials for kids using [turtle module](https://docs.python.
> org/3.6/library/turtle.html) of Python.
> >     Looking forward for views of the community. Many Thanks!
>
> Recently I have conducted few workshops for highschool students
> (8th-10th).
> Introduced them to programming using Scratch
> (https://scratch.mit.edu/) then few sessions on turtle module and finally
> some simple experiments with ExpEYS (http://expeyes.in) where students
> could write few lines of code in Python and fetch data and plot graphs.
>
> This approach   from interactive blocks of scratch to writing simple code
> in turtle module then introducing communication with hardware fetched good
> results.
>
> The response was amazing.
>
> Praveen,
   Is it possible for you to share training material you used, so we use it
as reference.
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